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0.975835	However, that’s not the only hardware players are eyeing. The NBA MVP award is always a hot topic in the basketball world, and it’s never too early to get the conversation rolling. Nikola Jokic won the MVP last season after a sensational season with the Denver Nuggets. But who will it be this season? Here is a look at the favorites to win the honor. Who is the favorite to win the NBA MVP? There is a new favorite to take home the MVP, but it certainly is not someone unfamiliar with the award. Golden State Warriors guard Stephen Curry, a two-time recipient, has jumped ahead and is the leader for the award, according to our partner, PointsBet. Curry previously won the honor in 2015 and 2016. Kevin Durant of the Brooklyn Nets has moved into second, while Milwaukee Bucks’ Giannis Antetokounmpo, who entered the season as the favorite, has slid into third. Here are the players with the highest odds to win the MVP: Steph Curry +180 Kevin Durant +450 Giannis Antetokounmpo +500 Nikola Jokic +650 Luka Doncic +1000 Joel Embiid +2000 Ja Morant +2300 Donovan Mitchell +2500 Jimmy Butler +3000 James Harden +3500 Paul George +4000 You can find all of the odds for MVP here. Who are the most recent winners of the MVP? As previously mentioned, Jokic won the award last season and Antetokounmpo won it the two years prior. Here’s a look at some of the most recent winners of the MVP. 2021: Nikola Jokic 2020: Giannis Antetokounmpo 2019: Giannis Antetokounmpo 2018: James Harden 2017: Russell Westbrook 2016: Steph Curry 2015: Steph Curry 2014: Kevin Durant 2013: LeBron James 2021: LeBron James Who has won the MVP the most in NBA history? Since the award was created in 1955, there have been a number of multi-time winners of the MVP. Kareem-Abdul Jabbar has won it the most times, three with the Milwaukee Bucks and three with the Los Angeles Lakers for a total of six. Both Michael Jordan and Bill Russell have won the award five times. Wilt Chamberlain and LeBron James each have taken home the trophy four times in their careers. Three players have been awarded the MVP three times -- Moses Malone, Larry Bird and Magic Johnson. There are a total of six players who have won the award twice, which includes Antetokounmpo, Curry, Tim Duncan, Steve Nash, Bob Pettit and Karl Malone. Editor's note: All odds are provided by our partner, PointsBet. PointsBet is our Official Sports Betting Partner and we may receive compensation if you place a bet on PointsBet for the first time after clicking our links.
0.999563	Describe the nurse's role and responsibility as a health educator. What strategies, besides the use of learning styles, can a nurse educator consider when developing tailored individual care plans, or for educational programs in health promotion? When should behavioral objectives be utilized in a care plan or health promotion?
0.986298	Florida Power & Light execs worked closely with consultants behind ‘ghost’ candidate scheme, records reveal \| Special Report Orlando Christmas, holiday events: Light-up nights, festivals, boat parades and more Man killed father during argument over TV at Hunter’s Creek apartment, deputies say Nick Saban on Gators’ new coach: ‘There’s nothing bad I can say about Billy Napier’ Misleading COVID-19 map from CDC left out data for Florida, changed overnight Hombre mató a su padre en medio de discusión por un televisor en un apartamento de Hunter’s Creek, dijeron autoridades At Orlando conference, professor says women should stay home, have many babies, avoid careers DeSantis slams Biden’s measures to halt spread of omicron variant Protecting the puzzle piece of DeLuca Preserve from within and far beyond FP&L connection to ‘ghost’ campaign consultants makes dark money reforms all the more urgent \| Editorial Disney Imagineering President Bob Weis steps down ahead of Lake Nona move Stephanie Murphy says she ignored attack ads in voting for Biden’s $1.75 trillion bill ‘Cancer symptoms don’t stop when you cross state lines.’ Florida denies short-term visitors medical marijuana Story of Ocoee Massacre finally being told - 100 years after it happened \| Special Report Universal Grinch actor goes viral after ‘hot’ banter with Orlando theme park reporter Advertisement Advertisement Sinkholes Media Industry Arts and Culture Looking back at Winter Park's famous sinkhole By Red Huber Orlando Sentinel \| Nov 13, 2012 at 1:17 PM An aerial view of the Winter Park sinkhole in 1981. (Orlando Sentinel file) You never know when and where the next sinkhole will open up in Central Florida. On Monday, a new one appeared in Windermere. I remember in 1981 covering the famous Winter Park sinkhole that grabbed international attention largely because of its size and its urban location. When it stopped growing, the crater measured 350 feet wide, 75 feet deep and had caused $4 million in damage. Advertisement Today, the famous Winter Park sinkhole resembles a small fishing pond surrounded by trees. The peaceful scene is quite different than the one from thirty years ago when on May 8, 1981 the ground near Denning Drive and Fairbanks Avenue collapsed. By the next day, it had swallowed a three-bedroom wood frame home belonging to Mae Rose "Mimi" Williams, part of the city's swimming pool and at least five Porsches from a German car business. Several of the cars later were rescued with a crane, but two are still down there somewhere. I remember covering this event that brought national and international attention to the small upscale community. One of first staff photographers the Orlando Sentinel had on the scene was Barbara Vitaliano. I distinctly remember a great photo of hers that captured Williams' tilted wood frame home as it slid into the gargantuan hole and later disappeared. Advertisement Advertisement When I arrived at the scene, I took a position across from the businesses that were hanging over the edge of the sinkhole. I couldn't believe what was happening right before my eyes as I watched expensive, German sport cars slide into the crater. That image will always be etched into my mind. Soon after, the three national television news networks arrived to the scene. Later came the T-shirt vendors and an almost circus-like atmosphere. The sinkhole became another Central Florida tourist attraction. The Orlando Sentinel had staff photographers stationed at the sinkhole just about every day to document this historic spectacle. City workers stabilized the hole by filling in the bottom with dirt and concrete, and it developed into an innocuous lake called Lake Rose in Williams' honor. Email Red Huber at [email protected] Follow Red Huber on Twitter @RedHuber. Like us on Facebook: Orlando Sentinel Photography.
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0.995935	Home India News Politics Kerala BJP to protest against death of RSS workers in Palakkad & Thrissur; wants NIA probe Breaking News Days after the brutal murder of a Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) worker in Kerala’s Palakkad district due to political enmity, the Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) on Sunday, November 21 declared that party members will stage a protest in the state on November 25, demanding a National Investigation Agency (NIA) probe in the matter. Making an announcement, the State BJP general secretary P Sudheer alleged that the murder was done in a political rivalry, whilst also alleging that the assailants belonged to the SDPI (Social Democratic Party Of India). The state BJP head announced that the saffron party will organise the protest on November 25, demanding a probe by the central agency, NIA, as the party ''believes that the ruling dispensation sides with the Islamic terrorists and will provide refuge to the alleged perpetrators of the SDPI.'' Kerala BJP to hold protest demanding NIA probe in killing of RSS member in Palakkad The BJP has voiced out to demand justice for the RSS member who was stabbed 50 times. "The Left government is supporting the SDPI and it should end. We are demanding the state government to hand over both cases to the NIA. On November 25, the BJP will organise a march to all collectorates in the state demanding the NIA probe into the killing of RSS workers in Palakkad and Thrissur. In Thiruvananthapuram, the protest will be held before the secretariat," he said. ബിജെപി സംസ്ഥാന ജനറൽ സെക്രട്ടറി പി സുധീർ തിരുവനന്തപുരത്തു നടത്തുന്ന പത്രസമ്മേളനം - തത്സമയം https://t.co/zWAmLjuhQX — BJP KERALAM (@BJP4Keralam) November 21, 2021 Sudheer made the announcement at a presser, where he reiterated that just like the previous killing of an RSS member in cold blood, in Thrissur, this time again the SDPI was behind these murders. Kerala RSS worker killed in cold blood A Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) worker was hacked to death in Kerala's Palakkad district on November 15. The deceased, identified as S Sanjith, was killed in an ambush attack while he had been riding his motorcycle with his wife, according to police. The attack, according to the BJP, was carried out by the Social Democratic Party of India, a political wing of the Popular Front of India (PFI). READ \| In Haryana, LoP Hooda accuses BJP for bribery in recruitment services Police said that Sanjith, who is from Elappully, was stabbed more than 50 times. Following the murder, the region was tense, and police had been keeping a close eye on everything. According to them, an investigation has been initiated to track down the accused who fled the site following the incident. READ \| 'People allowed to sell anything legal': Gujarat BJP chief clarifies non-veg stalls row I strongly condemn the brutal murder of BJP karyakartha Shri.Sanjith (27) by SDPI terrorists. He is a resident of Mambaram, Palakkad. There exists an unholy nexus between the ruling dispensation & radical Islamic elements. I urge the CM @vijayanpinarayi to book the perpetrators. pic.twitter.com/NILNRdDwCd
0.999371	Increasingly, there are serious questions being asked about the factual basis for declaring a pandemic and the growing number of mitigation policies being implemented by governments and corporations. When is a COVID-19 “case” really a case? Moreover, do the case numbers and death numbers that have been touted over the last 12 months by governments in UK, EU, USA, and numerous governments around the world, accurately reflect actual COVID cases and COVID deaths? TRUTH LIVES on at https://sgtreport.tv/ In fact, the World Health Organization (WHO) itself has admitted that the entire basis for collating “case” numbers since the beginning of this ‘global pandemic’ is effectively null and void. In its directive published in late January, the organization stated that medical professionals should not be using PCR Testing with high Cycle Threshold (CT) levels due to the high likelihood of generating false positives in people, and also that the PCR Test should not be used as the sole metric for diagnosing and should be accompanied by a professional clinical diagnosis. In other words: the PCR Test cannot rightly be used as a medical diagnostic tool, and yet, it has been widely used as such for the last 12 months. This admission should have grave implications for every public health official, politician and media editor on the planet, but the silence is deafening – as most are simply ignoring this fact. The following directive was issued on January 20, 2021 by the WHO: Description of the problem: WHO requests users to follow the instructions for use (IFU) when interpreting results for specimens tested using PCR methodology. Users of IVDs must read and follow the IFU carefully to determine if manual adjustment of the PCR positivity threshold is recommended by the manufacturer. WHO guidance Diagnostic testing for SARS-CoV-2 states that careful interpretation of weak positive results is needed (1). The cycle threshold (Ct) needed to detect virus is inversely proportional to the patient’s viral load. Where test results do not correspond with the clinical presentation, a new specimen should be taken and retested using the same or different NAT technology. WHO reminds IVD users that disease prevalence alters the predictive value of test results; as disease prevalence decreases, the risk of false positive increases (2). This means that the probability that a person who has a positive result (SARS-CoV-2 detected) is truly infected with SARS-CoV-2 decreases as prevalence decreases, irrespective of the claimed specificity. Most PCR assays are indicated as an aid for diagnosis, therefore, health care providers must consider any result in combination with timing of sampling, specimen type, assay specifics, clinical observations, patient history, confirmed status of any contacts, and epidemiological information. In addition, from the beginning of the ‘pandemic,’ arbitrary and broad guidelines for symptom diagnosis for COVID were being encouraged, and not surprisingly this corresponded with a complete disappearance of season influenza. Former Minnesota state legislator, Dr Scott Jensen MD, explains why this is absolutely crucial and how we’ve all been played over the last 12 months. Watch: . Video Credit: Coronavirus Plushie Read More @ 21stCenturyWire.com Facebook Twitter Google+ Pinterest WhatsApp Linkedin Email Previous articleStagflation Subterfuge: The Real Disaster Hidden by the Pandemic Next articleJim Rickards: Central Banks And Your Lost Wealth… Will Take A Decade To Recover SGT RELATED ARTICLESMORE FROM AUTHOR People Long Drowning In A Sea Of Misinformation Are Slowly Awakening As ‘Cognitive Dissonance’ Strikes Hard & The Globalists ‘Orwellian Doublethink’ Masks Melt Away Alec Baldwin BLAMES SUSPECT AT LARGE FOR LIVE ROUND, PULING THE HAMMER and Trigger of the Colt 45 Germany Has Fallen GET OUR PODCAST Loading... SGT Report is the corporate propaganda antidote. Providing exclusive original content and interviews with some of the best known voices in the world of economics and precious metals. SGT Report is your daily source for truth in a time of universal deceit. PODCASTS BUY GOLD & SILVER Economy Politics Corruption © 2021 SGT Report \| All Rights Reserved '); var formated_str = arr_splits[i].replace(/\surl\(\'(?!data\:)/gi, function regex_function(str) { return ' url(\'' + dir_path + '/' + str.replace(/url\(\'/gi, '').replace(/^\s+\|\s+$/gm,''); }); splited_css += ""; } var td_theme_css = jQuery('link#td-theme-css'); if (td_theme_css.length) { td_theme_css.after(splited_css); } } }); } })();
0.99991	I have a remote storage server in a colocation with 100s of TB of space. Yes, I know I have data-hoarding issues, no I am not going to get psychiatric help for it. But if you are like me and often find yourself accessing your data remotely there better ways to browse your data unlike GUI based SFTP client. You can mount your remote drive/folder using SSHFS and it will work similar to browsing your local hard drive. Why would you want to use SSFS when there are third-party GUI clients out there to make this job easier for you? The same reason you use SSH to log in to your server and don’t want the third party to have access to your private SSH keys. It’s more than just convenience, this is also a more secure way to access your server. In Linux (Ubuntu), you can install SSHFS using apt-get install sshfs. In OSX, you can install SSHFS using brew cask install osxfuse and then brew install sshfs. The step to mount remote drive itself is very easy: sshfs username@hostname: -ovolname= You can also make this mount persistent across reboot by making a mount entry on your /etc/fstab/ like this: :/home/users /root/sshfs fuse defaults 0 0
0.989157	This image released by Neon shows So-dam Park, left, and Woo-sik Choi in a scene from "Parasite." (Neon via AP) < > We kept hearing how divided the nation is, but at the movies in 2019, the walls have been falling down. The once-unbreachable wall between theatrical films and streaming titles, already weakened last year with the awards success of “Roma,” took more hits from the likes of Martin Scorsese (“The Irishman”) and Noah Baumbach (“Marriage Story”). “Roma” also put some holes in the notion that movies not in English couldn’t succeed stateside — something Cannes winners “Parasite” and “Portrait of a Lady on Fire” seemed to disprove as American audiences and critics embraced them. Everyone, save a few purists, agreed that they liked movies about Marvel superheroes (“Avengers: Endgame,” “Captain Marvel”) and DC villains (“Joker”). Everyone waited with anticipation for the final chapter of the Skywalker saga that began 42 years earlier with “Star Wars” — even if the movie itself was a disappointment. And everyone could agree “Cats” was just plain weird. There were some great movies in 2019, stories that took us to Korea and China, to 18th century France and mid-20th century Detroit, to a rock star’s decline and a mission to the moon. Here are my choices for the top 10 movies of 2019: 1. “Parasite” • A family of poor con artists insinuate themselves in the lives of a rich Seoul family, taking servants’ jobs through means fair and foul — only to find out there’s a deeper secret within the walls of the opulent house. Director Bong Joon-Ho’s modern-day thriller is a bloody mystery, a precisely observed family drama, and a sly but sharp commentary on the haves and the have-nots. (Now in theaters.) 2. “The Irishman” • The late-career work we’ve been waiting for Martin Scorsese to make recounts the memories of fixer and hitman Frank Sheeran (Robert De Niro). His tales of working through the Philly mob and becoming a confidante of Jimmy Hoffa (Al Pacino) are fascinating, even if they might be historically suspect. With a cast led by De Niro, Pacino and an out-of-retirement Joe Pesci, Scorsese builds on his gangster-movie reputation to create a searing drama and a meditation on the grave that awaits us all. (Streaming on Netflix.) 3. “Her Smell” • Meet Becky Something, a punk-rock queen who’s spiraling out of control — and writer-director Alex Ross Perry takes us along for the ride, as Becky (brilliantly played by Elisabeth Moss) alienates her bandmates, tries to wield control over an up-and-coming band, and burns almost all her bridges toward recovery. With Moss and a strong supporting cast, led by Agyness Deyn as Becky’s much-abused bass player and collaborator, Perry creates a kinetic masterpiece of a rocker’s fall and unsteady revival. (Available on demand or Blu-ray.) [More year in review: These are the 8 best dishes from new Utah restaurants in 2019] 4. “Portrait of a Lady on Fire” • In 18th century France, Marianne (Noémie Merlant), an independent painter, is hired to create a portrait of Héloise (Adèle Haenel), recently plucked from the convent by her countess mother (Valeria Golina) to marry an Italian nobleman. Marianne’s challenge is that Héloise doesn’t want to sit for a portrait, so the artist must befriend her subject and observe her looks — and paint from memory on the sly. Writer-director Céline Sciamma herself paints a luminous picture of passions, sexual and otherwise, and the liberation of female connection. (Opens at the Broadway Centre Cinemas on Feb. 28.) 5. “Avengers: Endgame” and “Captain Marvel” • In a year when some franchises — like “Game of Thrones” and “Star Wars” — ended with some disappointment, the Marvel Cinematic Universe stuck the landing with the satisfying “Avengers: Endgame.” Our heroes sacrifice much, sometimes all, to restore the universe altered by Thanos, in a story that balances humor, heartbreak and action perfectly. The franchise also produced “Captain Marvel,” a rousing Marvel character introduction, with Brie Larson as the headstrong heroine caught between her human past and her Kree present, and Samuel L. Jackson showing us how Nick Fury became the Avengers’ chief recruiter. (Streaming on Disney+ and available on Blu-ray.) 6. “Apollo 11” • Want to go to the moon? Director Todd Douglas Miller does the next best thing in this engrossing documentary, reconstructing the first mission to the moon through a wealth of archival footage — much of it never seen since the launch in 1969 — and a sound design that makes the viewer feel the rockets are under their seats. (Available on demand or on Blu-ray.) 7. “Ms. Purple” • Kasie (Tiffany Chu, in a stunning debut) works as a karaoke hostess in a Koreatown bar, trying to make enough money to help her dying father. Desperate when her dad’s caretaker quits, Katie calls on her estranged brother, Carey (Teddy Lee), to help out — and, in so doing, reopens old wounds from their abusive childhood. Director Justin Chon’s detailed, intense drama burrows under the viewer’s skin and doesn’t let go. (Available on demand.) 8. “One Child Nation” • Nanfu Wang had something growing up in China that few girls her age did: a sibling. Wang, now living in America, returns to China to talk to officials and family members about that country’s brutal one-child policy, in place from 1970 to 2015, and how it forever altered generations of Chinese people. (Streaming on Amazon Prime.) 9. “Booksmart” • This raucous and winning teen comedy is refreshingly of the moment, as it tracks two straight-A students (Kaitlyn Dever and Beanie Feldstein) on the last day of school, when they realize they’ve missed out on partying and try to make it all up in one night. The results, in the hands of first-time director Olivia Wilde, is both riotously funny and a perfect distillation of freshly minted high-schoolers both eager for and terrified of the next step. (Available on demand or on Blu-ray.) 10. “The Farewell” • Director-writer Lulu Wang tells the true story of a Chinese-American writer (Awkwafina) who’s told her favorite grandma (Shuzhen Zhao) has terminal cancer. What’s more, the family has opted not to tell her, but are all going to China to visit her one last time, using the pretense of a wedding. Wang’s wry semi-autobiographical comedy is a gentle reminder of the lengths we all go to keep our family happy and, sometimes, in the dark. (Available on demand.) The second 10 This image released by Netflix shows Scarlett Johansson, left, and Adam Driver in "Marriage Story." On Monday, Dec. 9, 2019, Johansson was nominated for a Golden Globe for best actress in a motion picture drama for her role in the film. (Netflix via AP) < > Noah Baumbach’s searing divorce drama “Marriage Story”; Jordan Peele’s unsettling thriller “Us”; Greta Gerwig’s luminous adaptation of “Little Women”; Taika Waititi’s anti-Nazi satire “Jojo Rabbit”; Julia Hart’s sneakily brilliant superhero tale “Fast Color”; Lynn Shelton’s sardonic comedy “Sword of Trust”; Marielle Heller’s heartbreaking Mr. Rogers biopic “A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood”; Jerémy Clapin’s eerie animated drama “I Lost My Body”; James Mangold’s rousing auto-race spectacle “Ford v. Ferrari”; Penny Lane’s hilarious and indignant documentary “Hail Satan?” [email protected] @SeanPMeans Donate to the newsroom now. 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0.996217	<% var weatherAlertsMessage = "There " + ( weatherAlerts > 1 ? "are" : "is" ) + " currently " + weatherAlerts + " active weather " + ( weatherAlerts > 1 ? "alerts" : "alert" ); %> ° Chance of precipitation Change MORE No Severe Weather Alerts in Your Area Sign Up to Get Future Alerts <% if ( count > 0 ) { %> 1 / 1 / Press enter to search Type to Search Search location by ZIP code ZIP <% if ( locations.length > 1 ) { %> Recent locations Advertisement These 3 COVID-19 vaccines have been in the news. Here's what you need to know about them Share Copy Link Copy {copyShortcut} to copy Link copied! Updated: 4:10 PM EDT Aug 10, 2020 By Theresa Waldrop These 3 COVID-19 vaccines have been in the news. Here's what you need to know about them Share Copy Link Copy {copyShortcut} to copy Link copied! Updated: 4:10 PM EDT Aug 10, 2020 Hide Transcript Show Transcript the US has now surpassed five million confirmed cases of Cove in 19 and in the last two weeks of July. 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Updated: 4:10 PM EDT Aug 10, 2020 By Theresa Waldrop The U.S. government is pouring billions into COVID-19 vaccines, and candidates from three companies are moving along quickly: Moderna, Pfizer and Novavax.Here's what you need to know about them.These are among the dozens of COVID-19 vaccines in trials around the world as researchers rush to find a way to stop the pandemic.To help speed the process, the U.S. government's Operation Warp Speed is providing some funding for those three and five others — vaccine candidates the Department of Health and Human Services calls "the most promising."Operation Warp Speed's goal is to have 300 million doses of a vaccine that's safe and effective by January 2021.While the Phase 1 trial results are promising, the proof will be in the results of the final, large Phase 3 trials. If a vaccine candidate makes it through that, it will go to the Food and Drug Administration for approval.Phase 1 trials involve testing the vaccine in a small group of people to see whether it's safe and whether it's effective. Phase 2 trials involve a larger group and often involve various potential doses. Phase 3 trials are a final stage before seeking approval and look for safety, efficacy and optimal dosing. For coronavirus, they are all scheduled to involve 30,000 people.President Donald Trump said last week he's optimistic that a vaccine will be available by the presidential election Nov. 3. Experts told CNN, though, that it's highly unlikely that either of the two U.S. companies with a vaccine candidate now in Phase 3 trials will have a vaccine ready for use by then, given the status and timelines of their trials now.ModernaWhere is it now? The start of Moderna's Phase 3 trial of its mRNA-1273 vaccine was announced just last week. It will involve 30,000 adults at 89 clinical research sites around the country. It is the first Phase 3 trial begun under Operation Warp Speed, according to the National Institutes of Health.Phase 2 started in May.Trial results: So far, only Phase 1 results have been released. Those early results showed the vaccine brought about an immune response, which is what researchers wanted to see. The higher the dose, the higher the immune response was in the people who got it.How safe is it? More than half of participants had side effects, including fatigue, chills, headache, muscle pain and pain at the injection site. These are considered normal side effects for a vaccine. The higher the dose, the worse the side effects. The Phase 3 trial will use the middle dose.Who is developing it? Moderna, a biotech based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, developed the vaccine with help from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, part of the U.S. National Institutes of Health.PfizerWhere is it now? Pfizer has more than one vaccine candidate, being developed together with the German company BioNTech. It has moved into a combined Phase 2/3 trial, also started last week, with one of them, BNT162b2. That's being carried out at about 120 sites worldwide, including 39 U.S. states and Argentina, Brazil and Germany.When will we have it? If the trial is successful, Pfizer and BioNTech have said they are on track to seek regulatory review as early as October. If it gets emergency authorization from the FDA, as many as 100 million doses may be available by the end of the year, and about 1.3 billion by the end of 2021.The Department of Health and Human Services and Department of Defense last month announced a $1.95 billion agreement with Pfizer to produce 100 million doses of the vaccine. The deal also allows the U.S. government to acquire an additional 500 million doses.Trial results: In the combined Phase 1/2 trial, both vaccines brought about an immune response and produced antibodies, a "double-arm" approach that the companies hope will be more effective and provide longer protection. So far, only one has moved on to more advanced trials. Almost 120 people participated.How safe is it? Preliminary data from the Phase 1/2 trial showed "a favorable overall tolerability profile" for the vaccine, Pfizer said in a news release, "with generally mild to moderate" side effects that lasted one to two days, "such as fever, fatigue and chills and no serious adverse events."NovavaxWhere is it now? Maryland-based biotech Novavax hopes to have its vaccine in Phase 3 trials next month.Trial results: Novavax released data from its Phase 1 trial Tuesday involving 131 participants. After two doses of the vaccine, participants had levels of antibodies that can fight off the virus that were four times higher, on average, than those developed by people who have recovered from COVID-19.The vaccine also brought about a response by immune cells, according to an analysis of 16 randomly selected volunteers.How safe is it? Of the 106 people who got the vaccine, and not a placebo, five had severe side effects, including muscle pain, nausea and joint pain, and one had a mild fever. The side effects lasted two days or less, on average. The U.S. government is pouring billions into COVID-19 vaccines, and candidates from three companies are moving along quickly: Moderna, Pfizer and Novavax. Here's what you need to know about them. Advertisement These are among the dozens of COVID-19 vaccines in trials around the world as researchers rush to find a way to stop the pandemic. To help speed the process, the U.S. government's Operation Warp Speed is providing some funding for those three and five others — vaccine candidates the Department of Health and Human Services calls "the most promising." Operation Warp Speed's goal is to have 300 million doses of a vaccine that's safe and effective by January 2021. While the Phase 1 trial results are promising, the proof will be in the results of the final, large Phase 3 trials. If a vaccine candidate makes it through that, it will go to the Food and Drug Administration for approval. Phase 1 trials involve testing the vaccine in a small group of people to see whether it's safe and whether it's effective. Phase 2 trials involve a larger group and often involve various potential doses. Phase 3 trials are a final stage before seeking approval and look for safety, efficacy and optimal dosing. For coronavirus, they are all scheduled to involve 30,000 people. President Donald Trump said last week he's optimistic that a vaccine will be available by the presidential election Nov. 3. Experts told CNN, though, that it's highly unlikely that either of the two U.S. companies with a vaccine candidate now in Phase 3 trials will have a vaccine ready for use by then, given the status and timelines of their trials now. Moderna Where is it now? The start of Moderna's Phase 3 trial of its mRNA-1273 vaccine was announced just last week. It will involve 30,000 adults at 89 clinical research sites around the country. It is the first Phase 3 trial begun under Operation Warp Speed, according to the National Institutes of Health. Phase 2 started in May. Moderna reveals how much its coronavirus vaccine would cost per dose Trial results: So far, only Phase 1 results have been released. Those early results showed the vaccine brought about an immune response, which is what researchers wanted to see. The higher the dose, the higher the immune response was in the people who got it. How safe is it? More than half of participants had side effects, including fatigue, chills, headache, muscle pain and pain at the injection site. These are considered normal side effects for a vaccine. The higher the dose, the worse the side effects. The Phase 3 trial will use the middle dose. Who is developing it? Moderna, a biotech based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, developed the vaccine with help from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, part of the U.S. National Institutes of Health. Who Will Be First in Line for a COVID-19 Vaccine? Pfizer Where is it now? Pfizer has more than one vaccine candidate, being developed together with the German company BioNTech. It has moved into a combined Phase 2/3 trial, also started last week, with one of them, BNT162b2. That's being carried out at about 120 sites worldwide, including 39 U.S. states and Argentina, Brazil and Germany. When will we have it? If the trial is successful, Pfizer and BioNTech have said they are on track to seek regulatory review as early as October. If it gets emergency authorization from the FDA, as many as 100 million doses may be available by the end of the year, and about 1.3 billion by the end of 2021. The Department of Health and Human Services and Department of Defense last month announced a $1.95 billion agreement with Pfizer to produce 100 million doses of the vaccine. The deal also allows the U.S. government to acquire an additional 500 million doses. Trial results: In the combined Phase 1/2 trial, both vaccines brought about an immune response and produced antibodies, a "double-arm" approach that the companies hope will be more effective and provide longer protection. So far, only one has moved on to more advanced trials. Almost 120 people participated. How safe is it? Preliminary data from the Phase 1/2 trial showed "a favorable overall tolerability profile" for the vaccine, Pfizer said in a news release, "with generally mild to moderate" side effects that lasted one to two days, "such as fever, fatigue and chills and no serious adverse events." Here's how to volunteer for a COVID-19 vaccine trial Novavax Where is it now? Maryland-based biotech Novavax hopes to have its vaccine in Phase 3 trials next month. Trial results: Novavax released data from its Phase 1 trial Tuesday involving 131 participants. After two doses of the vaccine, participants had levels of antibodies that can fight off the virus that were four times higher, on average, than those developed by people who have recovered from COVID-19. The vaccine also brought about a response by immune cells, according to an analysis of 16 randomly selected volunteers. How safe is it? Of the 106 people who got the vaccine, and not a placebo, five had severe side effects, including muscle pain, nausea and joint pain, and one had a mild fever. The side effects lasted two days or less, on average. Good Housekeeping 8 Best Space Heaters of 2021 7 Best Vacuums for Pet Hair of 2021, According to Tests By Cleaning Pros These Online Plant Delivery Services Will Totally Greenify Your Home 26 Best Rugs to Tie Your Living Room Together Loading more articles... checked="checked"/> Copy Link Copy {copyShortcut} to copy Link copied! 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0.942938	Prime Minister Justin Trudeau holds a press conference in Ottawa on March 5, 2021. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick Rolling back progress for women should not be COVID-19’s legacy: Trudeau Trudeau noted the pandemic’s toll on women, with many leaving the workforce at a higher rate than men The Canadian Press Mar. 8, 2021 1:00 p.m. Canada & World News A rollback of the progress women have made can’t be a legacy of the COVID-19 pandemic, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Monday as he virtually addressed an annual event aimed at getting more women’s voices heard by, and in, the House of Commons. Trudeau noted the pandemic’s toll on women, many leaving the workforce at a higher rate than men, and often taking on the greater share of caring for kids at home. “Of course, I don’t have to tell you that, you’re living it,” Trudeau said to the delegates of the annual Daughters of the Vote event. Women’s voices shouldn’t just be heard on the economic recovery from the pandemic but also on fighting systemic racism, climate change and gender-based violence, Trudeau said. More also needs to be done to lift up women who are Indigenous, Black, or women of colour, he said. “We are all stronger for the leadership of women and people of every gender identity,” Trudeau said. “There’s no doubt, when you add women, you change politics and you change it for the better.” Conservatives Leader Erin O’Toole said women bring a wealth of bold new ideas and a desire to build a better nation for themselves and for the generations that follow. “I believe that we need more women involved in every level of Canadian politics and that together we can overcome the challenges facing our country and secure future for all Canadians,” he said. The delegates also heard from NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh. In 2019 he received a standing ovation in an event marked by tension over Trudeau’s ejection of a senior female cabinet minister and then-Conservative leader Andrew Scheer’s stance on some social issues. The annual Daughters of the Vote program began in 2017 to mark the 100th anniversary of some women in Canada being given the right to vote. It’s organized by Equal Voice, and brings 338 female delegates representing every federal riding in Canada to the House of Commons for several days of political action, education and advocacy. READ MORE: Why skilled immigrant women continue to be shut out of B.C.’s booming tech sector —— This story was produced with the financial assistance of the Facebook and Canadian Press News Fellowship.
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0.999987	Chairing is a key role on any voluntary Management Committee. The Chairperson must ensure that the Management Committee functions properly, that there is full participation during meetings that all relevant matters are discussed and that effective decisions are made and carried out. The role of a Chairperson is time consuming, with work between meetings, external representation of the organization, and work with staff. Chairing a large organization requires diplomatic and leadership skills of a high level. Main duties of the chairperson The responsibilities of a Chairperson can be summarized under four areas: 1. To ensure the Management Committee functions properly. The Chairperson is responsible for making sure that each meeting is planned effectively, conducted according to the constitution and that matters are dealt with in an orderly, efficient manner. The Chairperson must make the most of all his/her committee members and ‘lead the team'. This also involves regularly reviewing the Committee's performance and identifying and managing the process for renewal of the Committee through recruitment of new members. 2. To ensure the organization is managed effectively. The Chairperson must co-ordinate the Committee to ensure that appropriate policies and procedures are in place for the effective management of the organization. 3. To provide support and supervision to the chief officer. The Chairperson will often be the direct line manager for the chief officer (the most senior staff member). 4. To represent the organization as its figurehead. The Chairperson may from time to time be called upon to represent the organization and sometimes be its spokesperson at, for example, functions or meetings.
0.986664	It was very dark outside. The object was very bright white then transitioned to orange before it went out of sight in a mountain valley?
0.985187	The Great German Art Exhibition was an annual affair intended to promote German art to the public. Read this speech by Hitler given at the opening of the first exhibition: Hitler speech at opening of the Great German Art Exhibition Now, look at some of the art that received the approval of the regime: Click images to see full size versions. Adolf Wissel, Kahlenberg Farm Family Arno Breker, The Army Arno Breker, The Party Josef Thorak, Comradeship Adolf Ziegler, The Four Elements Your task: How do one or more of the pieces of art above conform to what Hitler says in his speech? Architecture Here is an essay by the most famous architect of the Third Reich, Albert Speer, along with some pictures of the buildings he refers to in the essay: The Führer’s Buildings (accompanying photos) This video is a computer-generated reconstruction of Speer’s Reich Chancellery: https://youtu.be/ID7ruPMrAmQ And this article tells you about the plans to build Germania, a new capital for Germany that was to replace Berlin (the centre of Berlin was to be completely redesigned): Germania: Hitler’s Dream Capital Your task: What are the main components or features of government-endorsed architecture in the Third Reich? Leni Riefenstahl Leni Riefenstahl is one of the most complex figures of Third Reich culture. In the late 1920s she became famous as the heroine of Bergfilme (mountain films). She was a gifted athlete and could perform all her own stunts (in that day, most actors performed their own stunts). Even though Hitler did not particularly like film, he did like Leni, even if she didn’t incorporate the Nazi ideal of the passive woman who accepted her duty to produce healthy children. She turned to directing, and was invited to film the Nazi Party’s annual congress at Nuremberg. Today there still aren’t many female film directors, so imagine the impact her work as a director must have had in the 1930s. Her fame as a director rests on two films: Triumph of the Will, her film of the 1934 Nazi Party rally in Nuremberg, and Olympia, her two-part film of the 1936 Berlin Olympics. Both films are documentaries, but because she was had the support of Hitler and access to anything she needed, she was able to commit an incredible amount of resources to the making of these films. She shot miles and miles of footage, and took months to edit each film. Watch these two clips: Triumph of the Will: opening sequence Triumph of the Will: mass rally. The 1934 party congress occurred after Hitler used the SS to execute members of the SA he thought were becoming rivals. This scene is a display of unity as Hitler marches with Himmler, leader of the SS, and the new leader of the SA, a supporter of Hitler. Riefenstahl’s renown as a director rests on a couple of points: (1) she pulled out all the stops to get exactly the shot she wanted, which usually meant making special equipment especially for such shots; (2) she edited with a precision and a sense of rhythm that is still studied today. She had the time, the determination, and the resources to realize her vision, and because of that became one of the most important directors in cinematic history. But the issue always come up: should we watch Riefenstahl’s films? Should we study her technical mastery, even though that mastery served the purposes of the Nazi party? She denied to her dying day (and she lived past 100) that she was ever a Nazi or a Nazi sympathizer. She claimed to know nothing of the Nazis’ brutal tactics, and said that she was an artist with no interest in politics. But her films, especially Triumph of the Will, are considered to be classic examples of Nazi propaganda, and so it is supposed that her films contributed directly to the mobilzation of the German people behind Hitler. Thus for many, her claims of innocence and naivete ring false. After the war she was held for a time by the Allies, but she was never convicted of any major crimes for her work during the Third Reich. Your task: After watching those two clips, do you think Riefenstahl was an artist or a propagandist? Did she simply document some aspects of the Third Reich, or did she glorify it in her films, thereby convincing others to do the same? How did you feel after watching the clips? Fascinating Fascism In 1975, cultural critic Susan Sontag wrote an essay about Leni Riefenstahl called “Fascinating Fascism.” You can read the essay here: “Fascinating Fascism“ Part One of the essay (the part I really want you to read) is a review of a book of Riefenstahl’s photographs of the Nuba, a people in Africa that Riefenstahl visited after the war. (If you’d like to see some of these photos, click here.) It’s a dense essay, but it makes the argument that the aesthetics of fascism continue to be seen and enjoyed in contemporary culture. Your task: How would you summarize Sontag’s argument? What is the point she’s trying to make? Specific Instructions for this Review: Approved Culture Have a look at this ProfMoment: Your task: Analyze one of the works of art in this module, and explain how it supports the ideology of Nazism. Feel free to make use of the content items in the module and the postings of your classmates when composing your answer. (For example, perhaps someone else mentioned the point you’re making in a posting – you can cite that and expand on it.) 550-650 words General Instructions for the Module Reviews Please keep the following in mind, and please note the elaborations that have been added (in red): your answer should be uploaded as a PDF document – if it isn’t, it will be graded, but you’ll receive no comments. your answer should be double-spaced. no title page, but there should be a title, your name should appear at the top, and there should be page numbers. answers should be within the specified word range. good essays have the following: grammatically-correct sentences; coherent paragraphs; no spelling mistakes; a clear argument or point; titles that capture, directly or indirectly, a point being made in your essay. if you refer to a reading in this unit, you don’t have to give full bibliographical information, but when you first mention it, give the full title and author’s name. If you refer to material not read in class, provide a full bibliographical citation at the end of your essay (it will not count as part of the word count). Please note: the question may ask you to make use of the discussions that occurred in the module. There are two modes for viewing the discussion forums, GRID VIEW and READING VIEW. (You can change which you view by clicking on the settings – the gear icon – in the upper right-hand corner of your screen when you’re in the Discussions area of the course.) Play around with the two views to find the setting that works best for you. For example, when I’m reading your discussions during the week and commenting on some of them, I use the READING VIEW, but if I have to read and grade a lot of postings I use the GRID VIEW. 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0.999979	Buzz Lightyear is a "space ranger", and wears a space suit with various features such as retractable wings and transparent helmet, a laser "weapon", and various sound effects. He's also Woody's best friend! Rex This is Rex, a large, green, plastic Tyrannosaurus rex who thinks he is not scary enough. Have fun coloring it! Buzz Lightyear, Rex, Hamm and Slinky Dog In this awesome coloring page, Buzz Lightyear is accompanied by his friends Rex, Hamm and Slinky Dog! I think they are ready for fun! Andy donating Woody Andy is donating Woody and his toys to Bonnie, allowing that them stay together in an environment where they'll be loved and played with! Slinky Dog and Mr. Potato Head What about coloring these two characters from the Toy Story movie? They are Mr. Potato Head and Slinky Dog! Jessie waving Hey! Looks like Jessie is waving to her friends! A awesome coloring page of the cowgirl from the Toy Story movies!
0.98182	The main circuit of the converter can be divided into two types: the voltage-source inverter converts the DC of the voltage source into the AC, and the filter of the DC loop is the capacitor. Current-source cnverter converts that converts the current source from DC to AC, and its DC loop filter is inductor. Why does the voltage and current of the converter change in proportion? The torque of asynchronous motor is caused by the interaction between the flux of the motor and the overcurrent of the rotor. At rated frequency, if the voltage is fixed and only the frequency is reduced, the flux is too large and the magnetic loop is saturated. When it's serious, it burns down the motor. Therefore, the frequency and voltage should be changed proportionally, that is, to change the frequency while controlling the output voltage of the inverter, so that the magnetic flux of the motor will remain certain, and the phenomenon of weak magnetic field and magnetic saturation will be avoided. This kind of control method is mostly used in the energy saving inverter such as fan, pump and so on.
0.99884	The hazelnut originates from Asia and many of the cultivated varieties nowadays have their origin in the XIXth century. The world produces 700,000t and Spain occupies the third place, being Cataluña the main culture area. The hazelnut is original from Asia Minor. Chinese manuscripts have been found that talk about this fruit five thousand years back. The Greeks and the Romans spread it all over Europe, where it has been used throughout the centuries until the present time. Many of the cultivated varieties at the moment were obtained in the XIXth century, when there was a great interest for hybrids and the selection of species. The estimated world production is around 650-700,000t in the last years and the main producing countries are Turkey, Italy, Spain and the United States. Country Tons Turkey 550,000 Italy 100,000 Spain 16,500 USA 18,150 Others * 30,000 Total 714,650 Source: Inc. Source. The Craker, September 2000 * Georgia, Greece, France, etc. In Spain the areas where nowadays the culture has greater importance are Cataluña, Comunidad Valenciana and País Vasco. Area Hectares Tons Cataluña 27,365 18,100 Comunidad Valenciana 1,348 900 País Vasco 162 520 Asturias - 240 Aragón 7,300 35 Others 52 205 Total 36,227 20,000 Source: La Horticultura Española (2001) Traditionally, Spain is a hazelnut export country; nevertheless, in the last few years, imports come mainly from Turkey, due to the irregularity of the harvests. Export has diminished lately due to the Turkish competition. In 2000/01 exports are estimated to be 420.000t, as opposed to 14.000t that Spain would export. Moreover, export is very shared out and the main destinies are France, Austria, Germany, Switzerland, Czechoslovakia and Denmark. The first hazelnut without shell import country is China and the countries that follow are: Country Thousand tons China 71,998 Italy 19,298 France 16,678 Switzerland 12,260 Belgium-Luxembourg 10,623 USA 5,643 Austria 4,365 Spain 3,989 The Netherlands 3,254 United Kingdom 2,612 Source: The FAO Trade (1999) The main export country of hazelnuts without shell is Turkey, but there are also other countries, which are the following: Country Thousand tons Turkey 120,629 Italy 18,331 Azerbaijan 5,400 Spain 4,422 Germany 4,059 France 851 Belgium Luxembourg 581 Austria 312 Greece 156 Lituania 85 Source: The FAO Trade (1999). Interempresas Media, S.L. / 2021 [ Legal notice \| Política de Protección de Datos \| Política de cookies \| Publicidad]
0.999848	I'm usually on time for everything (and most times, early) except one thing: work. I'm not your stereotypical Latino, I guess. We have friends that tell us to come at one specific time, and the rest of their friends at another. Let's say they tell us to be there at 8:00, and the rest to be there at 7:15. They know that's the only way everybody will be there at 8:00 PM :-))):-) Question #2 – What would be harder for you, to tell someone you love them or to tell them that you do not love them back? The second, definitely. I have no problems telling my wife and kids how much I love them, but I would have a hard time telling someone who loves me 'Sorry, but I don't'. I only had to do it a couple of times in my life, and it wasn't easy... Question #3 – Which would you rather have: a high salary or job satisfaction? I already have the job satisfaction thing, so I guess it's time for me to make the big bucks! Pregunta #1 – Sos normalmente puntual, llegas temprano o llegas tarde? Soy puntual para todo (e incluso llego temprano la mayoría de las veces), excepto para una cosa: la oficina (siempre llego 15' tarde, pero después me quedo 1/2 hora más...) No soy un latino estereotípico, supongo. Tenemos amigos que nos dicen de ir a su casa a una hora determinada, y al resto de sus invitados les dan otra hora. Por ejemplo, a nosotros nos dicen a las 8:00 PM y al resto a las 7:15. De esa manera se aseguran de que todos lleguen a las 8:00 PM! :-) Pregunta #2 – Qué sería más difícil para vos, decirle a alguien que lo querés o decirle a alguien que te quiere que vos no? Definitivamente la segunda. No tengo ningún problema en decirle a mi esposa e hijos cuánto los quiero, pero si tendría muchas dificultades en decirle a alguien que me ama 'Mirá, lamentablemente yo no'. Lo he tenido que hacer un par de veces en mi vida, y no fue nada fácil. Pregunta #3 – Que preferirías tener, un salario alto o satisfacción con tu trabajo? Ya estoy más que satisfecho con el trabajo que hago, así que calculo que ya llegó el momento en que comience a levantar el dinero con pala! Manic Monday Be a Fan By Gabriel at 11:00 Email ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to FacebookShare to Pinterest Labels: Manic Monday, memes 4 comments: Diana_CT Aug 31, 2009, 3:32:00 PM I'm the opposite. I'm on time for work and late for everything else. ReplyDelete Replies Reply Catherine @ The Blonde Diaries Sep 1, 2009, 6:26:00 PM I'm late for most things but definitely late for work the most as well. I try my hardest to get there on time but I get side tracked every morning. It is amazing how appealing chores become in the morning when you are trying to avoid going to the office. LOL ReplyDelete Replies Reply Teena in Toronto Sep 2, 2009, 3:01:00 PM Thanks for stopping by mine :) ReplyDelete Replies Reply Daniel Corporate Housing Sep 4, 2009, 4:49:00 AM Thanks for explaining in details. 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0.999991	Believe it or not, the agency responsible for protecting U.S. currency is the United States Secret Service. The agency was founded on July 5, 1865 as part of the Department of the Treasury to combat the widespread counterfeiting of currency happening at the end of the Civil War.1 Combating counterfeiting remains core to preserving the integrity of the nation’s money. Money Matters The advent of high-tech printers and inks continues to raise the bar on what the federal government has needed to do to limit counterfeiting, leading to a range of new strategies. To make U.S. paper currency more difficult to copy, there have been continual changes to the artwork, paper and ink. Summarized below are some of these recent changes. Portrait - The portrait has become much more sophisticated by becoming closer to a lifelike picture than the screen-like background it was previously. On counterfeit bills, the portraits often appear to be unclear or unnaturally white. Border - The border design is now composed of intricate, crisscrossing lines that are clear and unbroken, distinguishing them from the smudged or broken lines of counterfeit bills. Paper - The paper is now embedded with tiny red and blue fibers. A polyester thread is also woven inside $10, $20, $50 and $100 bills with “USA TEN, USA TWENTY” printed on it to match the denomination. This makes it nearly impossible for photocopiers to reproduce. Ink - The ink used is a special, “never-dry” ink that can be rubbed off. This is not foolproof, however, since ink on some counterfeit bills can be rubbed off as well. Microprinting - Surrounding the portrait are the words “The United States of America” in miniature letters. It appears to be a black line to the naked eye, and is how a photocopier would reproduce it. Keep in mind that you are not reimbursed for any counterfeit currency that may come into your possession. So you are advised to be careful about the large bills you accept for payment. 1. United States Secret Service, 2020 The content is developed from sources believed to be providing accurate information. The information in this material is not intended as tax or legal advice. It may not be used for the purpose of avoiding any federal tax penalties. Please consult legal or tax professionals for specific information regarding your individual situation. This material was developed and produced by FMG Suite to provide information on a topic that may be of interest. FMG Suite is not affiliated with the named broker-dealer, state- or SEC-registered investment advisory firm. The opinions expressed and material provided are for general information, and should not be considered a solicitation for the purchase or sale of any security. Copyright 2021 FMG Suite. Share \| Have A Question About This Topic? Name Email Address Question Thank you! Oops! Related Contents The Latte Lie and Other Myths Check out this video to begin separating fact from fiction. How Big is Money? Learn a little about worldwide currency in this fun infographic Your Cash Flow Statement A presentation about managing money: using it, saving it, and even getting credit. Contact Private Financial Counseling Office: (310) 556-2055 Fax: (310) 286-2324 1901 Avenue of the Stars 11th Floor Los Angeles, CA 90067 [email protected] Quick Links Retirement Investment Estate Insurance Tax Money Lifestyle All Articles All Videos All Calculators All Presentations Check the background of your financial professional on FINRA's BrokerCheck. The content is developed from sources believed to be providing accurate information. The information in this material is not intended as tax or legal advice. Please consult legal or tax professionals for specific information regarding your individual situation. Some of this material was developed and produced by FMG Suite to provide information on a topic that may be of interest. FMG Suite is not affiliated with the named representative, broker - dealer, state - or SEC - registered investment advisory firm. The opinions expressed and material provided are for general information, and should not be considered a solicitation for the purchase or sale of any security. We take protecting your data and privacy very seriously. As of January 1, 2020 the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) suggests the following link as an extra measure to safeguard your data: Do not sell my personal information.
0.96473	What is one of the most requested foods at Chipotle? Cauliflower rice. Starting on Wednesday, Chipotle will be testing cauliflower rice in two states. Wisconsin and Colorado. The Colorado locations are limited to the Denver area. Getty Images In total, 55 Chipotles will be serving up the cilantro-lime cauliflower rice for a limited time. The cauliflower rice substitute will cost $2.00
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0.997617	Nobody should read this blog. There is nothing positive here. It contains my ravings when I encounter a product or service failure that I feel powerless to remedy. Thursday, April 18, 2019 HP Color LaserJet MFP M477fdw Issues Epilogue: 27 September 2019 -- It just gets worse: I'm preparing to delete ALL HP printer software from my Mac. Without any help from HP. In the time that has elapsed since this article was written, there was a firmware upgrade, to plug security holes, but apparently not to fix anything that I reported. Particularly damning is that the trivial web site redirect mentioned below in the "Support: Wrong page." section is STILL broken. My Mac is running a process, "HP Device Monitor" that after running for a day or so grows to a memory size of over 1G, and hoovers up between 25% and 60% of the CPU. This has a measurable impact. For example, switching desktops gets delayed until I force quit the process. This for a detector of "Scan to computer" requests coming in? Unbelievable! Multiple calls to HP gave inconsistent and incorrect information: "The HP Easy Start app will enable you to delete HP software." No it has no no such capability. "You can run the Uninstaller." The only Uninstaller I have is from 2011 when I had an HP Photosmart Premium. I really should have learned from the poor quality drivers for that product, and bought from any vendor other than HP for my color laser printer. "You have to go find the drivers and apps yourself and delete them." True but pretty much the definition of unhelpful. I am extremely disappointed with the quality of the software and HP's customer support and bug reporting experience. I strongly advise anyone with a Mac to avoid HP printers. I advise everyone to avoid HP scanners. Now on to the original article: Introduction: To replace a dead monochrome laser printer, a color inkjet printer, and an eleven year old page scanner, I went shopping for a multi-function printer. Reviewing the trustworthy, and well-detailed reviews at wirecutter.com as an upgrade pick, best laser printer, I bought the HP Color Laser MFP M477fdw. This article documents the issues I found. First off, I must testify that the printing by this unit is stellar! It prints beautiful color pages very quickly. It is a great replacement for my 20 year old Lexmark Optra E310, and for my HP Inkjet printer. My issues are in the areas of support, software update, setup, monochrome printing, and scanning. Footote: When I say, "the printed manual" I mean: HP Color LaserJet Pro MFP M477 - User Guide. Support: Wrong page. Page 112 of the printed manual says to "Get 24-hour internet support, and download software,utilities and drivers" go to: http://hp.com/support/colorljM477MFP. When you go there, you get redirected to HP Color LaserJet Pro MFP M277n. So somebody messed up the redirect. If you instead go to https://support.hp.com/us-en and type in "M477fdw" you will get to the right place. Support: Bad issue tracking. I ended up speaking with three different people, but that wasn't the problem. The first person I spoke to logged none of what we did together in the ticket, so the second person had to start from scratch. I was upset, and said, "Just go through your script and I'll tell you what I've already done." A couple days later, working with the second Tech, it looked like the problem was solved until I did more testing. I planned to call in again, but before I could do that I got an Email saying, "We've been unsuccessful in reaching you." That was annoying because the proper state of the ticket should have been, "Resolved" not "Waiting for Customer." Checking my missed call logs, I saw an attempt to reach me the day before my second call in. I REALLY would have preferred that attempt to have been to leave a message, not to just hang up. I replied to the "We're trying to reach you," message angrily complaining that the email reached me a couple hours after I had spoken with a Tech, that the message arrived at 6:00 PM on a Friday when their lines shut down for the weekend at 8:00, that the ticket should have shown the issue was resolved, except that I've done further testing, found more problems and would be calling in next week. On Monday I received the following apology: I do apologize for the issues that the scanner has given you so far. I couldn't reach you because I didn't have your phone number in our system. Could you please provide me your phone number I could assign a technician to address this matter? I didn't have time to follow up Monday. On Tuesday saying that they were closing my case. I called in, and angrily told them re-open the case and that I'd call in on Wednesday when I was home to do further debugging. When I did call in Wednesday, after having done further testing, convincing myself that root cause was bad Wireless software, I asked to open a complaint. When they told me I'd be called in 3-5 days, I said, "You need a phone number for me," because of Monday's note. But no, they had a phone number in the case. So somebody is not reading even the most basic information in the cases. Software Update: There isn't one. But there is. I did my homework on this printer, and discovered there were issues that were fixed by an upgrade to Firmware Datecode 20190113. The support page (when you get to the correct one) offers up that firmware. Page 108 of the printed manual gives "Method one: Update the firmware using the control panel". Following this method tells you that there is no update, and that your firmware is up to date. Except mine wasn't. My "Configuration Report" said I had Firmware Datecode 20180201. So method #1 simply didn't work, and any customer that uses it, will think they're up to date, and have problems with known fixes. Method 2 worked. Setup: No monochrome printing. Problems with setup became visible when I wanted to print monochrome only. A Google search turned up a really helpful article on OSXDaily. There IS an option to constrain printing to monochrome. That option wasn't present in my system dialog. Doing a reset of the printing system would fix the problem. (See also the thread in the HP user forum on this same topic.) As long as you don't mind losing the settings of all your print devices. Lucky for me, I was getting rid of my two other printers, so a reset wasn't a problem. However subsequent testing, and debugging turned up another problem: Setup: Just keep trying... As I get into later, I tried both wireless scanning and hard wired USB for scanning. When I re-configured the printer for USB instead of wireless, the "Black & White" option again disappeared from the system printer dialog. I was trying many things but I believe the stages of configuration went like this: Turn off wireless and plug in USB. Reset printing. Add printer. My printer is found. About 10 seconds elapse and then a progress bar pops up, with the progress fully filled in with buttons, "Configure" and "Cancel". I press "Configure" and I am prompted to verify if I have duplex, or tray 3. Configuration completes and I see my printer and scanner. I attempt to scan using EasyScan, but it hangs contacting the printer. I perform a scan using the system setup scan. I retry EasyScan and it works. I look for the "Black & White" option, and again it's missing. I open printer utility. It has a bit of trouble finding my toner status but after clicking around it finds everything. I reset printing again, repeating steps 2-7 above. Still no "Black & White" option. I restart my Mac (10.13, BTW). Still no "Black & White" option. I reset printing again, repeating steps 2-4 above. This time there is NO prompt to Configure. In addition to my printer, an M477fdw FAX machine is also found. FINALLY there is a "Black & White" option in the printer dialog. It seems to me that a printer setup utility should not have this sort of non-deterministic behavior. Scanning: Wireless is too flaky to use. My original plan was to make the printer wireless in my home and to have our various household computers, tablets and phones work with it directly. However that plan was abandoned after giving up on getting scanning to work via wireless. The initial symptom was to get the error message: Scanner reported an error:An error occurred while communicating with the scanner I'd get this message mostly after the first page started scanning through the document feeder. Retrying and re-retrying, I could get a scan going maybe one time in three. Once the scan got going, half the time it would finish. The other half, the scan would abort in the middle with the same error. Doing a Google search on this problem turned up several reports of 100% failure. There was one where the instructions (for a different HP printer) to turn off the ipv6 protocol. (See: Toggen Blog: [Solved] MacOS Sierra Scanning Fail.) I tried that solution, by remotely connecting to the printer, and turning off IPV6, but it didn't help. So I called in to HP. After trying several tests, the HP Tech had me turn off IPV6 from the front panel setups, and to change the "connection speed" from "Auto" to "100TX Full," it appeared that the problem was solved. Alas, it was not. The communication error would still occur, but much less frequently. You could cope with the problem by restarting any scan that failed. So don't scan any more pages at a time that you'd be annoyed about waiting for a second time. But a new, subtler and nastier problem arose: Scanned pages missing content with no warning. No error message is presented, but the scan gets a blank band in the middle. The band appears randomly, of random side, and oddly, occurs at the same point on the page when a duplex scan is done. For example, these instructions for tax preparation. There's a gap in the middle of the page meaning that instructions are lost. So when you scan your papers, you have to look at every page to make sure that they actually did scan correctly. Scanning: Pages come out crooked. After having bought the printer, someone called my attention to his findings of lots of very negative reviews of the M477fdw scanning owing to the scans coming out crooked. I admit that, I leaned very heavily on wirecutter's reviews and didn't do very much research. Wirecutter had flagged the crooked scanning as follows: ...the M477fdw can sometimes produce slightly crooked scans from the document feeder; to keep your results as uniform as possible, be sure to check that the guides are tight against the sides of your document before you start. I paid very careful attention to the guides when I scanned, but have a different analysis: The HP Easy Scan software has a "Straighten Pages" setting. When I tested scanning with the USB connection I tested scanning from two different methods: the Easy Scan app, and System Preferences (the "Open Scanner" button from within "Printers & Scanners" preference). Even with meticulous attention to the guides, I found the pages scanned from System Preferences were always a little crooked, but the Easy Scan pages were fine. I conclude that the document feeder actually has a problem centering pages that the Easy Scan compensates for, but that generic scanning, say with SANE under Linux will always have a problem. Scanning: Sub-par performance even when it works. The M477fdw was intended to replace two old printers and an eleven year old Fujitsu ScanSnap S1500M scanner. I really love this scanner. When I updated to MacOS 10.13, I got a warning that the ScanSnap software was going to have poor performance and that I should look for an update. Root cause is that 10.13 is a 64 bit platform, and doesn't like 32 bit software. I looked for an update but the web site didn't seem to offer one, instead saying something like, "Look for software relevant to a scanner we currently sell." However, just now, looking to re-find that message, instead I found an update for the ScanSnap software. Alas, it only mentions 10.12, and it's still 32 bit. So a 64 bit update isn't available. Here is how the HP M477fdw compares against the Fujitsu for my test case: Duplex scanning of 9 Sheets four of which had blank pages on side B. Fujitsu S1500M took 24 seconds. File size was 3.8 MB. Everything was very readable. Resolution seemed to be dynamically set for a very good balance of readability and file size. Color vs. monochrome was detected. Contrast was pushed on faint pages. The 4 blank sheets were auto-detected and left out. Slightly shorter pages were auto-detected. Page width and length are always auto-detected. The M477fdw using System Preferences took 78 seconds. File size was 10.8 MB. I had to hand-set the page size (US Letter), as well as the resolution (300dpi). Fine writing was blurry. All the pages were a teeny bit crooked. One faint page was extremely hard to read, and would ideally have had its contrast pushed. The M477fdw using Easy Scan took 70 seconds. File size was 11.6 MB. Again, page size, and resolution had to be set by hand. Contrast on one faint page had slighly better contrast, but nowhere near as readable as the output from the Fujitsu. The S1500M is a discontinued, eleven year old scanner. You can get one on Ebay for under $150. Or you could go with the M477fdw if taking 3 times as long to get a 3 times larger file that's not as easy to read is ok. I understand that my comparison here is not totally fair. The M477fdw is a multi-purpose machine, and perhaps is inappropriately being compared to a single-purpose scanning device. Even so, a decade is a long time in computer technology. I find the M477fdw scanner a total disappointment. The observation that Easy Scan fixed skewed pages leads me to believe that a big part of the performance gap is software, and could have been bridged if HP had cared to do so. How to make things better? There are several things HP could do to improve on this situation. In order from easiest to most difficult I call for: Fix the redirect of http://hp.com/support/colorljM477MFP to go to the right page. Find out why Method 1 lied and said there was no software update. Fix it. Find out why the printer setup keeps losing "Black & White". Fix it. Add a "Living Summary" section to all tickets. Require all employees to keep them up to date, and to read them. Regularly perform quality checks of Techs to confirm they are reading and writing that Living Summary. Cynically I say, after 3 times being caught not reading/writing Living Summary, you're fired. But the fact is, keeping that Living Summary going is going to save HP resources, and make customers happier. Multiple wrong emails and failed communications hit my ticket. Everybody's time was wasted. Perform further cleanups to printer setup and auto-discovery: There is the auto-discovery, and the Easy Setup application. These should use the same underlying code so that Easy Setup is just a convenient interface to ONE install system that JUST WORKS. Support Techs should not insist on download and use of Easy Setup as "the way to fix an install problem." If an HP specific setup is required, be up front about it. Address Easy Scan vs. System Preferences scanning: We see that page skew is a problem. Ideally the automatic document feeder (ADF) would be fixed not to have skew at all. Or the driver that uses System Preferences would get that option too. If there's real need for Easy Scan than make it a REAL scan manager (for example, look at Fujitsu's ScanSnap Manager) and give customers real value add. As it stands Easy Scan is required for reasons that are not documented, but otherwise adds no value. Improve the baseline scanning software in the printer to properly detect a page, and not require de-skew software. Allow auto-detect of blank pages, color, and resolution. Of course, manual settings should be available, but the dynamic ones should be available, and a pretty good balance. Find the REAL root cause of missed bands of text and communication problems via wireless, or OWN UP TO THE FAILURE. At the very least have a real review of the instruction, "Set the communication speed to 100TX Full". I've been inside wireless drivers and ethernet drivers. I do not understand why setting the PHY settings for a hardwired ethernet driver, or even turing off a the ipv6 protocol should have ANY effect on the ability to reliably receive scanned images from a printer. If it's not a TCP session with a rigorous data copy, it surely SHOULD be. Bottom Line: My joy of working with an amazing color laser printer was destroyed by: Failed attention to detail on basic offerings of support web pages, software update, and tracking of open tickets.
0.999871	I'm trying to run an ESRI ArcGIS extension but am getting an error that the extension is not installed or the license is not available. What do I do? This typically occurs if the extension has not be enabled within the ESRI software. Enabling Extensions To enable an extension, select Extensions from the Customize menu in ArcMap, ArcCatalog, ArcGlobe, or ArcScene (the application that comes with the ArcGIS 3D Analyst extension). The Extensions dialog box lists the extensions currently installed on your system that work with the application you are using. For example, if you are using ArcCatalog, you'll only see extensions listed that work with ArcCatalog. Extensions are listed in this dialog box whether or not you have registered them or whether or not licenses are currently available for them on your License Manager. To enable an extension, check the box next to it. If the extension is successfully enabled, the box will appear checked. Enabling an extension does not cause the extension's user interface to appear automatically; it simply enables any controls that the extension provides. If the extension's controls are on a toolbar, such as the ArcGIS Spatial Analyst extension toolbar, you will still need to display the toolbar by choosing it from the Toolbars pull-right menu in the View menu.
0.999932	The Austrian government has recently enacted another nationwide lockdown for both vaccinated and unvaccinated citizens and is preparing to impose a Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccine mandate by February 1, 2022. However, many of its citizens are refusing to submit to tyranny. Alexander Tschugguel, a renowned Austrian Catholic activist and founder of St. Boniface Institute, said: “The more people resist right now, the more people stop joining this whole madness, the better it is for us.” Austria entered a nationwide lockdown on Monday, November 22, that could last for three weeks as the government announced its plan to order all eligible Austrians aged 12 and up to get vaccinated by February 1, 2022, or face fines or imprisonment. There are still around two million Austrians who choose not to get vaccinated – a significant number for a country with a population of only nine million. (Related: Chancellor says Austria lockdown imminent as COVID-19 cases surge, despite mass vaccinations.) The alpine nation imposed a lockdown on unvaccinated citizens a week earlier, forbidding them to attend “nonessential” public venues. However, the measure showed no effect on the spread of the virus. As COVID cases continue to rise, even harsher measures were implemented – measures that are previously unimaginable in democracies. Tschugguel described the experience as being a “second-class citizen.” While the situation itself was unusual, he found a good side to it, saying that the common challenge brought people together. “I found out that I’m not the only one. My whole circle of friends, lots of people from my family,?my best friends, their families and so on, are all on our side –?[including] the ones who are vaccinated. As this is such an outrageous terror?which is being pushed on us,?many people understand that it is wrong,” he said. Tschugguel also noted that for a couple of weeks, unvaccinated people were banned from attending most public places to the point that even buying Christmas presents became a problem. He stated that unvaccinated individuals were only allowed to go buy “essential things.” Police power expanded to encroach Constitution The rules were being enforced by the police, whose manpower has significantly expanded to ensure that the unvaccinated are not violating lockdown rules. Moreover, the fines are incredibly high for those who broke lockdown rules. Old fines were at €500 ($562.2), but the government increased it to €1,500 (1,686.6). Given that the average income in Austria is less than €2,000 ($2,248.8), most cannot afford to pay such exorbitant fees. “This is about one average monthly income for a normal working man –?that’s obviously before paying rent and so on, so it’s not affordable for [most] people,” Tschugguel noted. The measure would also violate the country’s constitution, but Tschugguel believes the establishment will “work its way around the Constitution a little bit.” He also cited a case where the European Court of Human Rights ruled earlier this year that legally enforced vaccinations are a “necessary measure” in a democratic society and are in the best interest of everyone. Tschugguel said that this ruling could be used by elites as a legal framework for the COVID-19 vaccination mandates. When asked about his opposition to COVID vaccines, Tschugguel said that it was unacceptable for him to take them because of their connection to abortions. “That is something I do not want to ignore here, and I know that many people who do not fight the anti-abortion fight do not really understand this argument, but if you [are aware of] the whole industry behind it,?you can’t support a?medication, a vaccine, which is based on this terrible children-killing industry; it’s not possible,” he said. 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0.999991	The IEnumerable<T> and IEnumerator<T> interfaces in .NET are interesting. They crop up an awful lot, but hardly anyone ever calls them directly – you almost always use a foreach loop to iterate over the collection. That hides all the calls to GetEnumerator(), MoveNext() and Current. Likewise iterator blocks hide the details when you want to implement the interfaces. However, sometimes details matter – such as for this recent Stack Overflow question. The question asks how to create a thread-safe iterator – one that can be called from multiple threads. This is not about iterating over a collection n times independently on n different threads – this is about iterating over a collection once without skipping or duplicating. Imagine it’s some set of jobs that we have to complete. We assume that the iterator itself is thread-safe to the extent that calls from different threads at different times, with intervening locks will be handled reasonably. This is reasonable – basically, so long as it isn’t going out of its way to be thread-hostile, we should be okay. We also assume that no-one is trying to write to the collection at the same time. Sounds easy, right? Well, no… because the IEnumerator<T> interface has two members which we effectively want to call atomically. In particular, we don’t want the collection { “a”, “b” } to be iterated like this: Thread 1 Thread 2 MoveNext() MoveNext() Current Current That way we’ll end up not processing the first item at all, and the second item twice. There are two ways of approaching this problem. In both cases I’ve started with IEnumerable<T> for consistency, but in fact it’s IEnumerator<T> which is the interesting bit. In particular, we’re not going to be able to iterate over our result anyway, as each thread needs to have the same IEnumerator<T> – which it won’t do if each of them uses foreach (which calls GetEnumerator() to start with). Fix the interface First we’ll try to fix the interface to look how it should have looked to start with, at least from the point of view of atomicity. Here are the new interfaces: public interface IAtomicEnumerable<T> { IAtomicEnumerator<T> GetEnumerator(); } public interface IAtomicEnumerator<T> { bool TryMoveNext(out T nextValue); } One thing you may notice is that we’re not implementing IDisposable. That’s basically because it’s a pain to do so when you think about a multi-threaded environment. Indeed, it’s possibly one of the biggest arguments against something of this nature. At what point do you dispose? Just because one thread finished doesn’t mean that the rest of them have… don’t forget that “finish” might mean “an exception was thrown while processing the job, I’m bailing out”. You’d need some sort of co-ordinator to make sure that everyone is finished before you actually do any clean-up. Anyway, the nice thing about this being a blog post is we can ignore that little thorny issue :) The important point is that we now have a single method in IAtomicEnumerator<T> – TryMoveNext, which works the way you’d expect it to. It atomically attempts to move to the next item, returns whether or not it succeeded, and sets an out parameter with the next value if it did succeed. Now there’s no chance of two threads using the method and stomping on each other’s values (unless they’re silly and use the same variable for the out parameter). It’s reasonably easy to wrap the standard interfaces in order to implement this interface: /// <summary> /// Wraps a normal IEnumerable[T] up to implement IAtomicEnumerable[T]. /// </summary> public sealed class AtomicEnumerable<T> : IAtomicEnumerable<T> { private readonly IEnumerable<T> original; public AtomicEnumerable(IEnumerable<T> original) { this.original = original; } public IAtomicEnumerator<T> GetEnumerator() { return new AtomicEnumerator(original.GetEnumerator()); } /// <summary> /// Implementation of IAtomicEnumerator[T] to wrap IEnumerator[T]. /// </summary> private sealed class AtomicEnumerator : IAtomicEnumerator<T> { private readonly IEnumerator<T> original; private readonly object padlock = new object(); internal AtomicEnumerator(IEnumerator<T> original) { this.original = original; } public bool TryMoveNext(out T value) { lock (padlock) { bool hadNext = original.MoveNext(); value = hadNext ? original.Current : default(T); return hadNext; } } } } Just ignore the fact that I never dispose of the original IEnumerator<T> :) We use a simple lock to make sure that MoveNext() and Current always happen together – that nothing else is going to call MoveNext() between our TryMoveNext() calling it, and it fetching the current value. Obviously you’d need to write your own code to actually use this sort of iterator, but it would be quite simple: T value; while (iterator.TryMoveNext(out value)) { // Use value } However, you may already have code which wants to use an IEnumerator<T>. Let’s see what else we can do. Using thread local variables to fake it .NET 4.0 has a very useful type called ThreadLocal<T>. It does basically what you’d expect it to, with nice features such as being able to supply a delegate to be executed on each thread to provide the initial value. We can use a thread local to make sure that so long as we call both MoveNext() and Current atomically when we’re asked to move to the next element, we can get back the right value for Current later on. It has to be thread local because we’re sharing a single IEnumerator<T> across multiple threads – each needs its own separate storage. This is also the approach we’d use if we wanted to wrap an IAtomicEnumerator<T> in an IEnumerator<T>, by the way. Here’s the code to do it: public class ThreadSafeEnumerable<T> : IEnumerable<T> { private readonly IEnumerable<T> original; public ThreadSafeEnumerable(IEnumerable<T> original) { this.original = original; } public IEnumerator<T> GetEnumerator() { return new ThreadSafeEnumerator(original.GetEnumerator()); } IEnumerator IEnumerable.GetEnumerator() { return GetEnumerator(); } private sealed class ThreadSafeEnumerator : IEnumerator<T> { private readonly IEnumerator<T> original; private readonly object padlock = new object(); private readonly ThreadLocal<T> current = new ThreadLocal<T>(); internal ThreadSafeEnumerator(IEnumerator<T> original) { this.original = original; } public bool MoveNext() { lock (padlock) { bool ret = original.MoveNext(); if (ret) { current.Value = original.Current; } return ret; } } public T Current { get { return current.Value; } } public void Dispose() { original.Dispose(); current.Dispose(); } object IEnumerator.Current { get { return Current; } } public void Reset() { throw new NotSupportedException(); } } } I’m going to say it one last time – we’re broken when it comes to disposal. There’s no way of safely disposing of the original iterator at “just the right time” when everyone’s finished with it. Oh well. Other than that, it’s quite simple. This code has the serendipitous property of actually implementing IEnumerator<T> slightly better than C#-compiler-generated implementations from iterator blocks – if you call the Current property without having called MoveNext(), this will throw an InvalidOperationException, just as the documentation says it should. (It doesn’t do the same at the end, admittedly, but that’s fixable if we really wanted to be pedantic. Conclusion I found this an intriguing little problem. I think there are better ways of solving the bigger picture – a co-ordinator which takes care of disposing exactly once, and which possibly mediates the original iterator etc is probably the way forward… but I enjoyed thinking about the nitty gritty. Generally speaking, I prefer the first of these approaches. Thread local variables always feel like a bit of a grotty hack to me – they can be useful, but it’s better to avoid them if you can. It’s interesting to see how an interface can be inherently thread-friendly or not. One last word of warning – this code is completely untested. It builds, and I can’t immediately see why it wouldn’t work, but I’m making no guarantees… Share this: Twitter Facebook Like this: Like Loading... Related Post navigation Previous PostGeneric collections – relegate to an appendix?Next PostMigrating from Visual Studio 2010 beta 1 to beta 2 – solution file change required 33 thoughts on “Iterating atomically” Daniel Earwicker says: October 23, 2009 at 4:37 pm Another approach is immutable iterators: class IEnumerator { T Current { get; } IEnumerator GetNext(); } The compiler team would have a lot of fun (I’m sure!) implementing yield return. How about making each step of the iterator method into a separate class representing each state. Each state class would implement the above interface, and implement the GetNext method to allocate the following state class (passing it whatever state it needs to continue the computation). That way, each thread would be able to independently plow through the iteration at its own pace. No doubt you’re aware of Scala – it typically runs on the JVM, and it exposes lazy sequences in two ways: the native Java way (which is stateful, just like the .NET way) but also in something like the above immutable fashion. LikeLike Reply skeet says: October 23, 2009 at 5:32 pm @Daniel: I don’t see how that helps. If two threads both have a reference to the same initial immutable value, then they’re both going to see the same sequence. That’s explicitly not what we’re trying to do here – otherwise we’d just call GetEnumerator() from each different thread to start with. How can you use your immutable iterator to act on each item exactly once, but in parallel? Jon LikeLike Reply Mike says: October 23, 2009 at 5:40 pm As far as i know there exist also a Thread Local Attribute in Versions earlier then .Net 4.0. Applied to the right Variables the second Solution would work also for non .Net 4.0 Applications. LikeLike Reply skeet says: October 23, 2009 at 5:44 pm @Mike: There’s ThreadStaticAttribute, but that can only be applied to static variables, so it wouldn’t work here. LikeLike Reply Mike says: October 23, 2009 at 5:59 pm @Skeet: ThreadStatic is exactly what i meant. You could make ‘current’ static and apply the Thread StaticAttribute. It should work. LikeLike Reply Eamon Nerbonne says: October 23, 2009 at 6:16 pm Could Linq to Events or perhaps even PLinq be bent to achieve similar functionality? Also, thread-static storage is unfortunately slower than might be expected. If this new threadlocal thing is similar (or, quite likely, more expensive), then if at all possible, you don’t want to be using this in any kind of performance sensitive fashion, esp. not for a low-level building block like this where you’ll simply limit the applicability of your solution. PLinq comes with a variety of datastructures that are low on locking and may help you here. LikeLike Reply Strilanc says: October 23, 2009 at 6:32 pm I think I would solve the problem differently. Instead of combining Current with MoveNext, I would cause Current to return the last value MoveNext reached for this view of the enumerator. So, essentially, I have a class called AtomicEnumerator which takes a sub-enumerator and a lock object. It stores the last reached value, allowing multiple AtomicEnumerators to work on the same sub-enumerator provided they use the same lock. public class AtomicEnumerator : IEnumerator { private readonly IEnumerator subEnumerator; private readonly Object syncLock; private T last; public AtomicEnumerator(IEnumerator subEnumerator, Object syncLock) { this.subEnumerator = subEnumerator; this.syncLock = syncLock; } public bool MoveNext() { lock (syncLock) { if (!subEnumerator.MoveNext()) return false; last = subEnumerator.Current; return true; } } public T Current { get { return last; } } public void Reset() { throw new NotSupportedException(); } public void Dispose() { subEnumerator.Dispose(); } Object System.Collections.IEnumerator.Current { get { return last; } } } LikeLike Reply skeet says: October 24, 2009 at 1:08 am @Mike: If you make “current” static, then you run into problems if you ever need to iterate over two collections at the same time in the same thread (e.g. alternating between two collections). @Strilanc: Yes, that works – but it requires more work on the part of the caller. LikeLike Reply Mike says: October 24, 2009 at 2:45 am @Skeet: Ups you have right. I only have seen the standard case with foreach and sequentiell. Was late yesterday, Brain was in hibernate :-) LikeLike Reply Dax says: October 24, 2009 at 9:20 am Would something like this work as a simpler solution? It seems to in the test app I made. class ThreadSafeWrapper { readonly IEnumerator _original; public ThreadSafeWrapper(IEnumerable original) { _original = original.GetEnumerator(); } public IEnumerable Enumerable { get { while (true) { lock (_original) { if (_original.MoveNext()) yield return _original.Current; else yield break; } } } } } There is at least one functional difference; that any call to threadsafeWrapper.Enumerable.GetEnumerator() will automatically start wherever other threads left off. To reset the sequence you’d have to create a new wrapper. Don’t know if this is good or bad; probably depends on the use case. LikeLike Reply skeet says: October 24, 2009 at 9:25 am @Dex: No, that’s not thread-safe in the way that is intended – if multiple threads are “simultaneously” calling MoveNext()/Current, they could both end up seeing the same value and skipping another value, as per the top of my post. LikeLike Reply Olmo says: October 24, 2009 at 9:43 am I used the [ThreadStatic] approach in my implementation of ThreadSafeEnumerator some time ago: http://www.signumframework.com/Synchronization.ashx and http://signum.codeplex.com/SourceControl/changeset/view/25903#510505 but I’ve to use a combination of Dictionary to solve the concurrency problems. Using ThreadLocal is more preatty. I also thing that making IEnumerable a two member interface was a bad idea. The TryMoveNext or using a immutable interface synchronized using Sync.SafeSet would be a better idea. http://www.signumframework.com/Sync.ashx Sorry for so many ads, but I really thing it fits into the topic. LikeLike Reply Dax says: October 24, 2009 at 10:03 am @Skeet: Here’s a sample app that shows it works. Simply iterates through a Range, and increments TestArray[Current]. If using ThreadSafeWrapper, all the TestArray cells == 1 at the end, whereas without it, the final values are all over the place. I put a sleep between MoveNext() and Current to intensify the thread sync errors. The one issue that I don’t understand is that I occasionally see a SynchronizationLockException. My MSIL foo isn’t good enough to see what’s going on behind the scene to cause this to break sometimes. Any idea what’s going on there? class Program { const int Size = 1000; const int ThreadCount = 10; static readonly int[] TestArray = new int[Size]; static IEnumerator _enumerator; static void Main() { // Create an enumerable and wrap it. var range = Enumerable.Range(0, Size); _enumerator = new ThreadSafeWrapper(range).Enumerable.GetEnumerator(); // Launch the threads on Run with wait handles var waitHandles = new List(); for (var i = 0; i < ThreadCount; ++i) { var resetEvent = new AutoResetEvent(false); waitHandles.Add(resetEvent); ThreadPool.QueueUserWorkItem(Run, resetEvent); } WaitHandle.WaitAll(waitHandles.ToArray()); // If we used a ThreadSafeWrapper, every int in TestArray should have been // incremented exactly once, so let's count the cells equal to 1. Console.WriteLine((from i in TestArray where i == 1 select i).Count()); Console.ReadKey(); } /// /// Iterate through every int in _enumerator and increment that int in TestArray. /// /// reset event static void Run(Object state) { var resetEvent = (AutoResetEvent)state; while (_enumerator.MoveNext()) { Thread.Sleep(1); // Sleep a bit between MoveNext() and Current. ++TestArray[_enumerator.Current]; } resetEvent.Set(); } } LikeLike Reply skeet says: October 24, 2009 at 10:25 am @Dax: That’s actually failing every single time for me. Interestingly, it looks like you’ve actually discovered a potential compiler bug. I suspect that the IEnumerator generated by iterator blocks isn’t meant to be thread-safe… it keeps fields representing the current state, so if you’ve got more than one thread in the MoveNext() method at a time, the threads stomp on the state without any concern for each other. At some point, one thread is calling Monitor.Exit when it doesn’t actually have the lock. You’d have to implement the same sort of behaviour explicitly in your own IEnumerator implementation – but at that point, I’m sure I could provoke the skipping/duplication issue I mentioned. LikeLike Reply Dax says: October 24, 2009 at 12:54 pm @Skeet: Yeah, that’s exactly what’s happening. I (finally after all these years) got red gate’s Reflector and cleaned up the generated code to be more readable, and it essentially creates a new IEnumerator with the following: enum State { FirstTime, Normal, Done } State _status = State.FirstTime; public bool MoveNext() { if (_status == State.Done) { return false; } if (_status != State.FirstTime) { Monitor.Exit(_lock); } Monitor.Enter(_lock); _status = State.Done; if (_original.MoveNext()) { Current = _original.Current; _status = State.Normal; return true; } Dispose(); return false; } So if all the threads manage to get to the Monitor.Enter at the same time, you can see they’ll gladly play tag until everything is finished. Or if a thread sets Status.Done as the other threads enter MoveNext(), then all those threads will simply exit the loop and let the first thread do all the work. But if one thread gets to _status = State.Normal before another thread gets to the “if(_status != State.FirstTime)” check, then we’ll have the situation where a 2nd thread tries to release a lock it doesn’t own. I wonder why the exception happens all the time on your machine. It’s about 50/50 on mine. Of course, I agree with your first comment that building a more robust class to handle all this is the better solution, but yeah, it’s interesting seeing what the lower-level stuff actually generates. LikeLike Reply Dax says: October 24, 2009 at 3:00 pm Ooh, this gets really cool: if, in my Program class above, instead of storing the member variable “IEnumerator _enumerator”, we instead change that to “IEnumerable _enumerable”, and make the two corresponding changes to Main and Run, then ThreadSafeWrapper works, always! (Not to mention you can use a foreach in Run). So what’s different? If you look at the disassembly, you see that the generated class’s GetEnumerator() method first checks that the threadId == the initialThreadId. If so, then all is good, otherwise it creates a /new/ enumerator and returns that instead. So how does that fix things? Well look at the generated MoveNext() method I posted above. Since each thread has its own enumerator wrapper, each thread therefore maintains its own _status. Thus, since _status is initialized at State.FirstTime for each thread, there is no chance that any thread will call Monitor.Exit() before it calls Monitor.Lock(). So cool! LikeLike Reply Dax says: October 24, 2009 at 3:25 pm The obvious bad thing about my solution is that each thread locks until it calls MoveNext() again, so really there’s no point to having it be multithreaded at that point anyway. Oh well. LikeLike Reply skeet says: October 24, 2009 at 3:31 pm @Dax: The main problem is that at that point you’re back to each thread iterating over the whole set, unless I’ve missed something. The point is to share an IEnumerator safely. LikeLike Reply Dax says: October 24, 2009 at 4:13 pm @Skeet: No because in the generated class’s GetEnumerator() method, if it creates a new enumerator, it passes “_original” (the original, non-threadsafe enumerator) to the new enumerator’s constructor. Therefore, while each new enumerator maintains its own _status, they all reference to the /original/ non-threadsafe enumerator. Thus everything happens in shared sequence and yet is completely threadsafe. (tested and verified). (Though, as I mentioned, each thread blocks till it calls MoveNext() again). Pretty cool though. Kudos to the compiler people. LikeLike Reply skeet says: October 24, 2009 at 4:25 pm Ah, I’d misread your previous comment. I now understand better… but yes, it’s now not usefully multithreaded :( LikeLike Reply SLaks says: October 24, 2009 at 9:13 pm Actually, it won’t compile. To make it compile, change current.Value = original.Value; to current.Value = original.Current; Also, it still won’t always work – it assumes that the original enumerator isn’t bound to its thread. For example, if the original enumerator accesses WinForms controls (which is more likely than you’d think), this will still fail. In such a case, it’s completely impossible, unless you enumerate into a thread-safe queue on the original thread. LikeLike Reply skeet says: October 25, 2009 at 2:18 am @SLaks: Not sure how that typo crept in… Thanks. I explicitly mentioned that the original enumerator has to behave reasonably when called from multiple threads at the start: “We assume that the iterator itself is thread-safe to the extent that calls from different threads at different times, with intervening locks will be handled reasonably. This is reasonable – basically, so long as it isn’t going out of its way to be thread-hostile, we should be okay.” LikeLike Reply Daniel Earwicker says: October 25, 2009 at 12:12 pm Gah! I posted a solution to a completely different problem. Oh dear. Having read the first paragraph properly, the key interface is basically that of a shared input queue. In which case I wouldn’t bother with IAtomicEnumerable. If you’re really sharing the iteration, why create an interface to the collection as well? You only need a public class that implements IAtomicEnumerator over IEnumerator, and then: public static IAtomicEnumerator GetAtomicEnumerator(this IEnumerable source) { return new AtomicEnumerator(source.GetEnumerator()); } … to get a single instance of the wrapper to hand out to multiple threads. You could also let the compiler do the work of converting back to the standard interface for convenience (calling this separately from each thread): public static IEnumerable ToEnumerable( this IAtomicEnumerator source) { T value; while (source.TryMoveNext(out value)) yield return next; } Disposal would be important/useful in this situation, I think, as long as it is coordinated via the same lock object. Just a reference count that is incremented for each client, and decremented each time Dispose is called on the IAtomicEnumerator. When the count falls to zero, Dispose the original iterator. LikeLike Reply skeet says: October 25, 2009 at 3:25 pm @Daniel: Yes, a disposal count is the way I’d implement disposal if I’d bothered :) My reason for having IAtomicEnumerable as well as IAtomicEnumerator was to suggest that it could have been a complete alternative to IEnumerable/IEnumerator – in other words, if the framework had been implemented in that way to start with, it could have been simpler. On the other hand, it wouldn’t actually make much sense for most iterators to be thread-safe. LikeLike Reply Ben Voigt [C++ MVP] says: October 26, 2009 at 10:51 am I think we may need to have a discussion with Eric Lippert — C# prevents most undesirable interactions between yield return and other features, and it seems to me that yield return inside a lock block should also be forbidden. LikeLiked by 1 person Reply Daniel Earwicker says: October 27, 2009 at 4:31 am @Ben Voigt – “it seems to me that yield return inside a lock block should also be forbidden.” I wonder if that would achieve much, given that: lock (l) { yield return x; } Is the same as: Monitor.Enter(l); try { yield return x; } finally { Monitor.Exit(l); } So if people wanted to do it, they still could. And ultimately, if the user has control of what will be on the consuming side, then this is not necessarily wrong. It’s only wrong if the consumer doesn’t understand that they are potentially holding a lock in the body of their foreach loop. That might conceivably be exactly what you want, in some situations. To ban anything that might be wrong inside a lock, you’d have to ban quite a lot of things, e.g. any method call to a 3rd party library that might ultimately (after a few years of evolutionary code maintenance) take out more locks, in an unpredictable order. LikeLike Reply Dax says: October 29, 2009 at 7:15 am Here’s an way to solve it, while maintaining an easy IEnumerable interface, and also handling disposal. public class AtomicEnumerable : IEnumerable, IDisposable { readonly IEnumerator _underlyingEnumerator; public AtomicEnumerable(IEnumerable inner) { _underlyingEnumerator = inner.GetEnumerator(); } public void Dispose() { _underlyingEnumerator.Dispose(); } public IEnumerator GetEnumerator() { return new AtomicEnumerator(_underlyingEnumerator); } IEnumerator IEnumerable.GetEnumerator() { return GetEnumerator(); } class AtomicEnumerator : IEnumerator { readonly IEnumerator _underlyingEnumerator; public AtomicEnumerator(IEnumerator atomic) { _underlyingEnumerator = atomic; } public bool MoveNext() { lock (_underlyingEnumerator) { var b = _underlyingEnumerator.MoveNext(); Current = _underlyingEnumerator.Current; return b; } } public void Dispose() { } public void Reset() { } public T Current { get; private set; } object IEnumerator.Current { get { return Current; } } } } The key is that this new AtomicEnumerable only ever creates a single Enumerator of the underlying Enumerable. Any time a AtomicEnumerable.GetEnumerator() is called, the new AtomicEnumerator is passed a reference to that one single underlying enumerator instead of creating a new one from scratch. That way, the AtomicEnumerator’s Dispose method doesn’t have to do anything; it’s not the one in control of the underlying enumerator. To solve the disposal problem, AtomicEnumerable also implements IDisposable, and kills the underlying enumerator in its Dispose method. I think this fits better than reference counting, since you never know for sure when the app is really done. Maybe all the current AtomicEnumerators have been disposed, but there’s no way to know apriori whether AtomicEnumerable.GetEnumerator() will be called again. If you really wanted to, with this design you could put reference counting in pretty easily too. LikeLike Reply skeet says: October 29, 2009 at 7:26 am @Dax: That means you can’t just use foreach on it and rely on the C# compiler putting in the Dispose call though, because it only does that on the IEnumerators. Other than that, I agree it should work. LikeLike Reply Dax says: October 29, 2009 at 4:51 pm One place where the ThreadLocal would work better though is if the requirement was that all the threads had to share the enumerator, rather than the enumerable. That wouldn’t be possible in the version I posted. (Unless of course the consumers handled it explicitly by locking a shared object and caching a local Current copy only inside the lock; but they could do that with ANY enumerator). Thus the ThreadLocal soln would be the only way to handle an additional requirement that AtomicEnumerable.GetEnumerator() should always start at the beginning; ie, that iterating through the list doesn’t change the list. Essentially it just comes down to having a place to cache Current in each thread, whether by having each thread create its own caching enumerator, by storing in a ThreadLocal, or by explicitly locking and caching a local copy from within the multithreaded routine. Anyway, interesting topic. Thanks for posting it. LikeLike Reply Mehmet Ergut says: November 8, 2009 at 12:51 pm Isn’t there a problem in how you use the padlock object? When two threads are calling GetEnumerator, they each get their own separate instance of AtomicEnumerator which locks on its own private padlock object. Or maybe I’m missing something. LikeLike Reply skeet says: November 8, 2009 at 1:20 pm @Mehmet: The point is that the threads don’t each call GetEnumerator – they would each be given the single result of calling GetEnumerator. We’re using one iterator across multiple threads. LikeLike Reply Mehmet Ergut says: November 8, 2009 at 2:12 pm Oh, you would call GetEnumerator once and use the same iterator instance in all threads, I didn’t think of it that way. Thanks for clarifying. The name AtomicEnumerable is misleading then, because only the iterator is atomic not the enumerable. If threads are given the enumerable instance, it’s named “Atomic” after all, it won’t work. I’d put the lock object in the Enumerable and pass it to the iterator, so every iterator created would lock on the same object. LikeLike Reply leo says: November 11, 2009 at 4:46 pm What do you think about the new System.Reactive framework? (shipped with a preview of Silverlight) LikeLike Reply Leave a Reply Cancel reply Enter your comment here... Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: Email (required) (Address never made public) Name (required) Website You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. ( Log Out / Change ) You are commenting using your Google account. 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CONTENTS Dedication Chapter One Chapter Two Chapter Three Chapter Four Chapter Five Chapter Six Chapter Seven Chapter Eight Chapter Nine Chapter Ten Chapter Eleven Chapter Twelve Chapter Thirteen Chapter Fourteen Chapter Fifteen Chapter Sixteen Chapter Seventeen Chapter Eighteen Chapter Nineteen Chapter Twenty Chapter Twenty-One Chapter Twenty-Two Chapter Twenty-Three Chapter Twenty-Four Chapter Twenty-Five Chapter Twenty-Six Chapter Twenty-Seven Chapter Twenty-Eight Chapter Twenty-Nine Chapter Thirty Chapter Thirty-One Chapter Thirty-Two Chapter Thirty-Three Chapter Thirty-Four Chapter Thirty-Five Chapter Thirty-Six Chapter Thirty-Seven Chapter Thirty-Eight Chapter Thirty-Nine Chapter Forty Chapter Forty-One Chapter Forty-Two Chapter Forty-Three Chapter Forty-Four Chapter Forty-Five Chapter Forty-Six Chapter Forty-Seven Chapter Forty-Eight Chapter Forty-Nine Chapter Fifty Chapter Fifty-One Chapter Fifty-Two Chapter Fifty-Three Chapter Fifty-Four Chapter Fifty-Five Chapter Fifty-Six Chapter Fifty-Seven Chapter Fifty-Eight Chapter Fifty-Nine Chapter Sixty Chapter Sixty-One Chapter Sixty-Two Chapter Sixty-Three Chapter Sixty-Four Chapter Sixty-Five Chapter Sixty-Six Chapter Sixty-Seven Chapter Sixty-Eight Chapter Sixty-Nine Chapter Seventy Chapter Seventy-One Chapter Seventy-Two Chapter Seventy-Three Chapter Seventy-Four Chapter Seventy-Five Chapter Seventy-Six Chapter Seventy-Seven Chapter Seventy-Eight Acknowledgments Back Ads About the Author Books by Tahereh Mafi Credits Copyright About the Publisher ONE I am an hourglass. My seventeen years have collapsed and buried me from the inside out. My legs feel full of sand and stapled together, my mind overflowing with grains of indecision, choices unmade and impatient as time runs out of my body. The small hand of a clock taps me at one and two, three and four, whispering hello, get up, ; stand up, it’s time to wake up wake up “Wake up,” he whispers. A sharp intake of breath and I’m awake but not up, surprised but not scared, somehow staring into the very desperately green eyes that seem to know too much, too well. Aaron Warner Anderson is bent over me, his worried eyes inspecting me, his hand caught in the air like he might’ve been about to touch me. He jerks back. He stares, unblinking, chest rising and falling. “Good morning,” I assume. I’m unsure of my voice, of the hour and this day, of these words leaving my lips and this body that contains me. I notice he’s wearing a white button-down, half untucked into his curiously unrumpled black slacks. His shirtsleeves are folded, pushed up past his elbows. His smile looks like it hurts. I pull myself into a seated position and Warner shifts to accommodate me. I have to close my eyes to steady the sudden dizziness, but I force myself to remain still until the feeling passes. I’m tired and weak from hunger, but other than a few general aches, I seem to be fine. I’m alive. I’m breathing and blinking and feeling human and I know exactly why. I meet his eyes. “You saved my life.” I was shot in the chest. Warner’s father put a bullet in my body and I can still feel the echoes of it. If I focus, I can relive the exact moment it happened; the pain: so intense, so excruciating; I’ll never be able to forget it. I suck in a startled breath. I’m finally aware of the familiar foreignness of this room and I’m quickly seized by a panic that screams I did not wake up where I fell asleep. My heart is racing and I’m inching away from him, hitting my back against the headboard, clutching at these sheets, trying not to stare at the chandelier I remember all too well— “It’s okay—” Warner is saying. “It’s all right—” “What am I doing here?” Panic, panic; terror clouds my consciousness. “Why did you bring me here again—?” “Juliette, please, I’m not going to hurt you—” “Then why did you bring me here?” My voice is starting to break and I’m struggling to keep it steady. “Why bring me back to this hellhole—” “I had to hide you.” He exhales, looks up at the wall. “What? Why?” “No one knows you’re alive.” He turns to look at me. “I had to get back to base. I needed to pretend everything was back to normal and I was running out of time.” I force myself to lock away the fear. I study his face and analyze his patient, earnest tone. I remember him last night—it must’ve been last night—I remember his face, remember him lying next to me in the dark. He was tender and kind and gentle and he saved me, saved my life. Probably carried me into bed. Tucked me in beside him. It must’ve been him. But when I glance down at my body I realize I’m wearing clean clothes, no blood or holes or anything anywhere and I wonder who washed me, wonder who changed me, and worry that might’ve been Warner, too. “Did you . . .” I hesitate, touching the hem of the shirt I’m wearing. “Did—I mean—my clothes—” He smiles. He stares until I’m blushing and I decide I hate him a little and then he shakes his head. Looks into his palms. “No,” he says. “The girls took care of that. I just carried you to bed.” “The girls,” I whisper, dazed. The girls. Sonya and Sara. They were there too, the healer twins, they helped Warner. They helped him save me because he’s the only one who can touch me now, the only person in the world who’d have been able to transfer their healing power safely into my body. My thoughts are on fire. Where are the girls what happened to the girls and where is Anderson and the war and oh God what’s happened to Adam and Kenji and Castle and I have to get up I have to get up I have to get up and get out of bed and get going but I try to move and Warner catches me. I’m off-balance, unsteady; I still feel as though my legs are anchored to this bed and I’m suddenly unable to breathe, seeing spots and feeling faint. Need up. Need out. Can’t. “Warner.” My eyes are frantic on his face. “What happened? What’s happening with the battle—?” “Please,” he says, gripping my shoulders. “You need to start slowly; you should eat something—” “Tell me—” “Don’t you want to eat first? Or shower?” “No,” I hear myself say. “I have to know now.” One moment. Two and three. Warner takes a deep breath. A million more. Right hand over left, spinning the jade ring on his pinkie finger over and over and over and over “It’s over,” he says. “What?” I say the word but my lips make no sound. I’m numb, somehow. Blinking and seeing nothing. “It’s over,” he says again. “No.” I exhale the word, exhale the impossibility. He nods. He’s disagreeing with me. “No.” “Juliette.” “No,” I say. “No. No. Don’t be stupid,” I say to him. “Don’t be ridiculous,” I say to him. “Don’t lie to me goddamn you,” but now my voice is high and broken and shaking and “No,” I gasp, “no, no, no—” I actually stand up this time. My eyes are filling fast with tears and I blink and blink but the world is a mess and I want to laugh because all I can think is how horrible and beautiful it is, that our eyes blur the truth when we can’t bear to see it. The ground is hard. I know this to be an actual fact because it’s suddenly pressed against my face and Warner is trying to touch me but I think I scream and slap his hands away because I already know the answer. I must already know the answer because I can feel the revulsion bubbling up and unsettling my insides but I ask anyway. I’m horizontal and somehow still tipping over and the holes in my head are tearing open and I’m staring at a spot on the carpet not ten feet away and I’m not sure I’m even alive but I have to hear him say it. “Why?” I ask. It’s just a word, stupid and simple. “Why is the battle over?” I ask. I’m not breathing anymore, not really speaking at all; just expelling letters through my lips. Warner is not looking at me. He’s looking at the wall and at the floor and at the bedsheets and at the way his knuckles look when he clenches his fists but no not at me he won’t look at me and his next words are so, so soft. “Because they’re dead, love. They’re all dead.” TWO My body locks. My bones, my blood, my brain freeze in place, seizing in some kind of sudden, uncontrollable paralysis that spreads through me so quickly I can’t seem to breathe. I’m wheezing in deep, strained inhalations, and the walls won’t stop swaying in front of me. Warner pulls me into his arms. “Let go of me,” I scream, but, oh, only in my imagination because my lips are finished working and my heart has just expired and my mind has gone to hell for the day and my eyes my eyes I think they’re bleeding. Warner is whispering words of comfort I can’t hear and his arms are wrapped entirely around me, trying to keep me together through sheer physical force but it’s no use. I feel nothing. Warner is shushing me, rocking me back and forth, and it’s only then that I realize I’m making the most excruciating, earsplitting sound, agony ripping through me. I want to speak, to protest, to accuse Warner, to blame him, to call him a liar, but I can say nothing, can form nothing but sounds so pitiful I’m almost ashamed of myself. I break free of his arms, gasping and doubling over, clutching my stomach. “Adam.” I choke on his name. “Juliette, please—” “Kenji.” I’m hyperventilating into the carpet now. “Please, love, let me help you—” “What about James?” I hear myself say. “He was left at Omega Point—he wasn’t a-allowed to c-come—” “It’s all been destroyed,” Warner says slowly, quietly. “Everything. They tortured some of your members into giving away the exact location of Omega Point. Then they bombed the entire thing.” “Oh, God.” I cover my mouth with one hand and stare, unblinking, at the ceiling. “I’m so sorry,” he says. “You have no idea how sorry I am.” “Liar,” I whisper, venom in my voice. I’m angry and mean and I can’t be bothered to care. “You’re not sorry at all.” I glance at Warner just long enough to see the hurt flash in and out of his eyes. He clears his throat. “I am sorry,” he says again, quiet but firm. He picks up his jacket from where it was hanging on a nearby rack; shrugs it on without a word. “Where are you going?” I ask, guilty in an instant. “You need time to process this and you clearly have no use for my company. I will attend to a few tasks until you’re ready to talk.” “Please tell me you’re wrong.” My voice breaks. My breath catches. “Tell me there’s a chance you could be wrong—” Warner stares at me for what feels like a long time. “If there were even the slightest chance I could spare you this pain,” he finally says, “I would’ve taken it. You must know I wouldn’t have said it if it weren’t absolutely true.” And it’s this—his sincerity—that finally snaps me in half. Because the truth is so unbearable I wish he’d spare me a lie. I don’t remember when Warner left. I don’t remember how he left or what he said. All I know is that I’ve been lying here curled up on the floor long enough. Long enough for the tears to turn to salt, long enough for my throat to dry up and my lips to chap and my head to pound as hard as my heart. I sit up slowly, feel my brain twist somewhere in my skull. I manage to climb onto the bed and sit there, still numb but less so, and pull my knees to my chest. Life without Adam. Life without Kenji, without James and Castle and Sonya and Sara and Brendan and Winston and all of Omega Point. My friends, all destroyed with the flick of a switch. Life without Adam. I hold on tight, pray the pain will pass. It doesn’t. Adam is gone. My first love. My first friend. My only friend when I had none and now he’s gone and I don’t know how I feel. Strange, mostly. Delirious, too. I feel empty and broken and cheated and guilty and angry and desperately, desperately sad. We’d been growing apart since escaping to Omega Point, but that was my fault. He wanted more from me, but I wanted him to live a long life. I wanted to protect him from the pain I would cause him. I tried to forget him, to move on without him, to prepare myself for a future separate and apart from him. I thought staying away would keep him alive. Stupid girl. The tears are fresh and falling fast now, traveling quietly down my cheeks and into my open, gasping mouth. My shoulders won’t stop shaking and my fists keep clenching and my body is cramping and my knees are knocking and old habits are crawling out of my skin and I’m counting cracks and colors and sounds and shudders and rocking back and forth and back and forth and back and forth and I have to let him go I have to let him go I have to I have to I close my eyes and breathe. Harsh, hard, rasping breaths. In. Out. Count them. I’ve been here before, I tell myself. I’ve been lonelier than this, more hopeless than this, more desperate than this. I’ve been here before and I survived. I can get through this. But never have I been so thoroughly robbed. Love and possibility, friendships and futures: gone. I have to start over now; face the world alone again. I have to make one final choice: give up or go on. So I get to my feet. My head is spinning, thoughts knocking into one another, but I swallow back the tears. I clench my fists and try not to scream and I tuck my friends in my heart and revenge I think has never looked so sweet. THREE Hang tight Hold on Look up Stay strong Hang on Hold tight Look strong Stay up One day I might break One day I might b r e a k free Warner can’t hide his surprise when he walks back into the room. I look up, close the notebook in my hands. “I’m taking this back,” I say to him. He blinks at me. “You’re feeling better.” I nod over my shoulder. “My notebook was just sitting here, on the bedside table.” “Yes,” he says slowly. Carefully. “I’m taking it back.” “I understand.” He’s still standing by the door, still frozen in place, still staring. “Are you”—he shakes his head—“I’m sorry, are you going somewhere?” It’s only then that I realize I’m already halfway to the door. “I need to get out of here.” Warner says nothing. He takes a few careful steps into the room, slips off his jacket, drapes it over a chair. He pulls three guns out of the holster strapped to his back and takes his time placing them on the table where my notebook used to be. When he finally looks up he has a slight smile on his face. Hands in his pockets. His smile a little bigger. “Where are you going, love?” “I have some things I need to take care of.” “Is that right?” He leans one shoulder against the wall, crosses his arms against his chest. He can’t stop smiling. “Yes.” I’m getting irritated now. Warner waits. Stares. Nods once, as if to say, Go on. “Your father—” “Is not here.” “Oh.” I try to hide my shock, but now I don’t know why I was so certain Anderson would still be here. This complicates things. “You really thought you could just walk out of this room,” Warner says to me, “knock on my father’s door, and do away with him?” Yes. “No.” “Liar, liar, pants on fire,” Warner says softly. I glare at him. “My father is gone,” Warner says. “He’s gone back to the capital, and he’s taken Sonya and Sara with him.” I gasp, horrified. “No.” Warner isn’t smiling anymore. “Are they . . . alive?” I ask. “I don’t know.” A simple shrug. “I imagine they must be, as they’re of no use to my father in any other condition.” “They’re alive?” My heart picks up so quickly I might be having a heart attack. “I have to get them back—I have to find them, I—” “You what?” Warner is looking at me closely. “How will you get to my father? How will you fight him?” “I don’t know!” I’m pacing across the room now. “But I have to find them. They might be my only friends left in this world and—” I stop. I spin around suddenly, heart in my throat. “What if there are others?” I whisper, too afraid to hope. I meet Warner across the room. “What if there are other survivors?” I ask, louder now. “What if they’re hiding somewhere?” “That seems unlikely.” “But there’s a chance, isn’t there?” I’m desperate. “If there’s even the slightest chance—” Warner sighs. Runs a hand through the hair at the back of his head. “If you’d seen the devastation the way that I did, you wouldn’t be saying such things. Hope will break your heart all over again.” My knees have begun to buckle. I cling to the bed frame, breathing fast, hands shaking. I don’t know anything anymore. I don’t actually know what’s happened to Omega Point. I don’t know where the capital is or how I’d get there. I don’t know if I’d even be able to get to Sonya and Sara in time. But I can’t shake this sudden, stupid hope that more of my friends have somehow survived. Because they’re stronger than this—smarter. “They’ve been planning for war for such a long time,” I hear myself say. “They must have had some kind of a backup plan. A place to hide—” “Juliette—” “Dammit, Warner! I have to try. You have to let me look.” “This is unhealthy.” He won’t meet my eyes. “It’s dangerous for you to think there’s a chance anyone might still be alive.” I stare at his strong, steady profile. He studies his hands. “Please,” I whisper. He sighs. “I have to head to the compounds in the next day or so, just to better oversee the process of rebuilding the area.” He tenses as he speaks. “We lost many civilians,” he says. “Too many. The remaining citizens are understandably traumatized and subdued, as was my father’s intention. They’ve been stripped of any last hope they might’ve had for rebellion.” A tight breath. “And now everything must be quickly put back in order,” he says. “The bodies are being cleared out and incinerated. The damaged housing units are being replaced. Civilians are being forced to go back to work, orphans are being moved, and the remaining children are required to attend their sector schools. “The Reestablishment,” he says, “does not allow time for people to grieve.” There’s a heavy silence between us. “While I’m overseeing the compounds,” Warner says, “I can find a way to take you back to Omega Point. I can show you what’s happened. And then, once you have proof, you will have to make your choice.” “What choice?” “You have to decide your next move. You can stay with me,” he says, hesitating, “or, if you prefer, I can arrange for you to live undetected, somewhere on unregulated grounds. But it will be a solitary existence,” he says quietly. “You can never be discovered.” “Oh.” A pause. “Yes,” he says. Another pause. “Or,” I say to him, “I leave, find your father, kill him, and deal with the consequences on my own.” Warner fights a smile and fails. He glances down and laughs just a little before looking me right in the eye. He shakes his head. “What’s so funny?” “My dear girl.” “What?” “I have been waiting for this moment for a long time now.” “What do you mean?” “You’re finally ready,” he says. “You’re finally ready to fight.” Shock courses through me. “Of course I am.” In an instant I’m bombarded by memories of the battlefield, the terror of being shot to death. I have not forgotten my friends or my renewed conviction, my determination to do things differently. To make a difference. To really fight this time, with no hesitation. No matter what happens—and no matter what I discover—there’s no turning back for me anymore. There are no other alternatives. I have not forgotten. “I forge forward or die.” Warner laughs out loud. He looks like he might cry. “I am going to kill your father,” I say to him, “and I’m going to destroy The Reestablishment.” He’s still smiling. “I will.” “I know,” he says. “Then why are you laughing at me?” “I’m not,” he says softly. “I’m only wondering,” he says, “if you would like my help.” FOUR “What?” I blink fast, disbelieving. “I’ve always told you,” Warner says to me, “that we would make an excellent team. I’ve always said that I’ve been waiting for you to be ready—for you to recognize your anger, your own strength. I’ve been waiting since the day I met you.” “But you wanted to use me for The Reestablishment—you wanted me to torture innocent people—” “Not true.” “What? What are you talking about? You told me yourself—” “I lied.” He shrugs. My mouth has fallen open. “There are three things you should know about me, love.” He steps forward. “The first,” he says, “is that I hate my father more than you might ever be capable of understanding.” He clears his throat. “Second, is that I am an unapologetically selfish person, who, in almost every situation, makes decisions based entirely on self-interest. And third.” A pause as he looks down. Laughs a little. “I never had any intention of using you as a weapon.” Words have failed me. I sit down. Numb. “That was an elaborate scheme I designed entirely for my father’s benefit,” Warner says. “I had to convince him it would be a good idea to invest in someone like you, that we might utilize you for military gain. And to be quite, quite honest, I’m still not sure how I managed it. The idea is ludicrous. To spend all that time, money, and energy on reforming a supposedly psychotic girl just for the sake of torture?” He shakes his head. “I knew from the beginning it would be a fruitless endeavor; a complete waste of time. There are far more effective methods of extracting information from the unwilling.” “Then why—why did you want me?” His eyes are jarring in their sincerity. “I wanted to study you.” “What?” I gasp. He turns his back to me. “Did you know,” he says, so quietly I have to strain to hear him, “that my mother lives in that house?” He looks to the closed door. “The one my father brought you to? The one where he shot you? She was in her room. Just down the hall from where he was keeping you.” When I don’t respond, Warner turns to face me. “Yes,” I whisper. “Your father mentioned something about her.” “Oh?” Alarm flits in and out of his features. He quickly masks the emotion. “And what,” he says, making an effort to sound calm, “did he say about her?” “That she’s sick,” I tell him, hating myself for the tremor that goes through his body. “That he stores her there because she doesn’t do well in the compounds.” Warner leans back against the wall, looking as if he requires the support. He takes a hard breath. “Yes,” he finally says. “It’s true. She’s sick. She became ill very suddenly.” His eyes are focused on a distant point in another world. “When I was a child, she seemed perfectly fine,” he says, turning and turning the jade ring around his finger. “But then one day she just . . . fell apart. For years I fought my father to seek treatment, to find a cure, but he never cared. I was on my own to find help for her, and no matter who I contacted, no doctor was able to treat her. No one,” he says, hardly breathing now, “knew what was wrong with her. She exists in a constant state of agony,” he says, “and I’ve always been too selfish to let her die.” He looks up. “And then I heard about you. I’d heard stories about you, rumors,” he says. “And it gave me hope for the very first time. I wanted access to you; I wanted to study you. I wanted to know and understand you firsthand. Because in all my research, you were the only person I’d ever heard of who might be able to offer me answers about my mother’s condition. I was desperate,” he says. “I was willing to try anything.” “What do you mean?” I ask. “How could someone like me be able to help you with your mother?” His eyes find mine again, bright with anguish. “Because, love. You cannot touch anyone. And she,” he says, “she cannot be touched.” FIVE I’ve lost the ability to speak. “I finally understand her pain,” Warner says. “I finally understand what it must be like for her. Because of you. Because I saw what it did to you—what it does to you—to carry that kind of burden, to exist with that much power and to live among those who do not understand.” He tilts his head back against the wall, presses the heels of his hands to his eyes. “She, much like you,” he says, “must feel as though there is a monster inside of her. But unlike you, her only victim is herself. She cannot live in her own skin. She cannot be touched by anyone; not even by her own hands. Not to brush a hair from her forehead or to clench her fists. She’s afraid to speak, to move her legs, to stretch her arms, even to shift to a more comfortable position, simply because the sensation of her skin brushing against itself causes her an excruciating amount of pain.” He drops his hands. “It seems,” he says, fighting to keep his voice steady, “that something in the heat of human contact triggers this terrible, destructive power within her, and because she is both the originator and the recipient of the pain, she’s somehow incapable of killing herself. Instead, she exists as a prisoner in her own bones, unable to escape this self-inflicted torture.” My eyes are stinging hard. I blink fast. For so many years I thought my life was difficult; I thought I understood what it meant to suffer. But this. This is something I can’t even begin to comprehend. I never stopped to consider that someone else might have it worse than I do. It makes me feel ashamed for ever having felt sorry for myself. “For a long time,” Warner continues, “I thought she was just . . . sick. I thought she’d developed some kind of illness that was attacking her immune system, something that made her skin sensitive and painful. I assumed that, with the proper treatment, she would eventually heal. I kept hoping,” he says, “until I finally realized that years had gone by and nothing had changed. The constant agony began to destroy her mental stability; she eventually gave up on life. She let the pain take over. She refused to get out of bed or to eat regularly; she stopped caring about basic hygiene. And my father’s solution was to drug her. “He keeps her locked in that house with no one but a nurse to keep her company. She’s now addicted to morphine and has completely lost her mind. She doesn’t even know me anymore. Doesn’t recognize me. And the few times I’ve ever tried to get her off the drugs,” he says, speaking quietly now, “she’s tried to kill me.” He’s silent for a second, looking as if he’s forgotten I’m still in the room. “My childhood was almost bearable sometimes,” he says, “if only because of her. And instead of caring for her, my father turned her into something unrecognizable.” He looks up, laughing. “I always thought I could fix it,” he says. “I thought if I could only find the root of it—I thought I could do something, I thought I could—” He stops. Drags a hand across his face. “I don’t know,” he whispers. Turns away. “But I never had any intention of using you against your will. The idea has never appealed to me. I only had to maintain the pretense. My father, you see, does not approve of my interest in my mother’s well-being.” He smiles a strange, twisted sort of smile. Looks toward the door. Laughs. “He never wanted to help her. She is a burden he is disgusted by. He thinks that by keeping her alive he’s doing her a great kindness for which I should be grateful. He thinks this should be enough for me, to be able to watch my mother turn into a feral creature so utterly consumed by her own agony she’s completely vacated her mind.” He runs a shaky hand through his hair, grips the back of his neck. “But it wasn’t,” he says quietly. “It wasn’t enough. I became obsessed with trying to help her. To bring her back to life. And I wanted to feel it,” he says to me, looking directly into my eyes. “I wanted to know what it would be like to endure a pain like that. I wanted to know what she must experience every day. “I was never afraid of your touch,” he says. “In fact, I welcomed it. I was so sure you would eventually strike out at me, that you would try to defend yourself against me; and I was looking forward to that moment. But you never did.” He shakes his head. “Everything I’d read in your files told me you were an unrestrained, vicious creature. I was expecting you to be an animal, someone who would try to kill me and my men at every opportunity—someone who needed to be closely watched. But you disappointed me by being too human, too lovely. So unbearably naive. You wouldn’t fight back.” His eyes are unfocused, remembering. “You didn’t react against my threats. You wouldn’t respond to the things that mattered. You acted like an insolent child,” he says. “You didn’t like your clothes. You wouldn’t eat your fancy food.” He laughs out loud and rolls his eyes and I’ve suddenly forgotten my sympathy. I’m tempted to throw something at him. “You were so hurt,” he says, “that I’d asked you to wear a dress.” He looks at me then, eyes sparkling with amusement. “Here I was, prepared to defend my life against an uncontrollable monster who could kill,” he says, “kill a man with her bare hands—” He bites back another laugh. “And you threw tantrums over clean clothes and hot meals. Oh,” he says, shaking his head at the ceiling, “you were ridiculous. You were completely ridiculous and it was the most entertainment I’d ever had. I can’t tell you how much I enjoyed it. I loved making you mad,” he says to me, his eyes wicked. “I love making you mad.” I’m gripping one of his pillows so tightly I’m afraid I might tear it. I glare at him. He laughs at me. “I was so distracted,” he says, smiling. “Always wanting to spend time with you. Pretending to plan things for your supposed future with The Reestablishment. You were harmless and beautiful and you always yelled at me,” he says, grinning widely now. “God, you would yell at me over the most inconsequential things,” he says, remembering. “But you never laid a hand on me. Not once, not even to save your own life.” His smile fades. “It worried me. It scared me to think you were so ready to sacrifice yourself before using your abilities to defend yourself.” A breath. “So I changed tactics. I tried to bully you into touching me.” I flinch, remembering that day in the blue room too well. When he taunted me and manipulated me and I came so close to hurting him. He’d finally managed to find exactly the right things to say to hurt me enough to want to hurt him back. I nearly did. He cocks his head. Exhales a deep, defeated breath. “But that didn’t work either. And I quickly began to lose sight of my original purpose. I became so invested in you that I’d forgotten why I’d brought you on base to begin with. I was frustrated that you wouldn’t give in, that you refused to lash out even when I knew you wanted to. But every time I was ready to give up, you would have these moments,” he says, shaking his head. “You had these incredible moments when you’d finally show glimpses of raw, unbridled strength. It was incredible.” He stops. Leans back against the wall. “But then you’d always retreat. Like you were ashamed. Like you didn’t want to recognize those feelings in yourself. “So I changed tactics again. I tried something else. Something that I knew—with certainty—would push you past your breaking point. And I must say, it really was everything I hoped it would be.” He smiles. “You looked truly alive for the very first time.” My hands are suddenly ice cold. “The torture room,” I gasp. SIX “I suppose you could call it that.” Warner shrugs. “We call it a simulation chamber.” “You made me torture that child,” I say to him, the anger and the rage of that day rising up inside of me. How could I forget what he did? What he made me do? The horrible memories he forced me to relive all for the sake of his entertainment. “I will never forgive you for that,” I snap, acid in my voice. “I will never forgive you for what you did to that little boy. For what you made me do to him!” Warner frowns. “I’m sorry—what?” “You would sacrifice a child!” My voice is shaking now. “For your stupid games! How could you do something so despicable?” I throw my pillow at him. “You sick, heartless, monster!” Warner catches the pillow as it hits his chest, staring at me like he’s never seen me before. But then a kind of understanding settles into place for him, and the pillow slips from his hands. Falls to the floor. “Oh,” he says, so slowly. He’s squeezing his eyes shut, trying to suppress his amusement. “Oh, you’re going to kill me,” he says, laughing openly now. “I don’t think I can handle this—” “What are you talking about? What’s wrong with you?” I demand. He’s still smiling as he says, “Tell me, love. Tell me exactly what happened that day.” I clench my fists, offended by his flippancy and shaking with renewed anger. “You gave me stupid, skimpy clothes to wear! And then you took me down to the lower levels of Sector 45 and locked me in a dirty room. I remember it perfectly,” I tell him, fighting to remain calm. “It had disgusting yellow walls. Old green carpet. A huge two-way mirror.” Warner raises his eyebrows. Gestures for me to continue. “Then . . . you hit some kind of a switch,” I say, forcing myself to keep talking. I don’t know why I’m beginning to doubt myself. “And these huge, metal spikes started coming out of the ground. And then”—I hesitate, steeling myself—“a toddler walked in. He was blindfolded. And you said he was your replacement. You said that if I didn’t save him, you wouldn’t either.” Warner is looking at me closely now. Studying my eyes. “Are you sure I said that?” “Yes.” “Yes?” He cocks his head. “Yes, you saw me say that with your own eyes?” “N-no,” I say quickly, feeling defensive, “but there were loudspeakers—I could hear your voice—” He takes a deep breath. “Right; of course.” “I did,” I tell him. “So after you heard me say that, what happened?” I swallow hard. “I had to save the boy. He was going to die. He couldn’t see where he was going and he was going to be impaled by those spikes. I had to pull him into my arms and try to find a way to hold on to him without killing him.” A beat of silence. “And did you succeed?” Warner asks me. “Yes,” I whisper, unable to understand why he’s asking me this when he saw it all happen for himself. “But the boy went limp,” I say. “He was temporarily paralyzed in my arms. And then you hit another switch and the spikes disappeared, and I let him down and he—he started crying again and bumped into my bare legs. And he started screaming. And I . . . I got so mad at you . . .” “That you broke through concrete,” Warner says, a faint smile touching his lips. “You broke through a concrete wall just to try and choke me to death.” “You deserved it,” I hear myself say. “You deserved worse.” “Well,” he sighs. “If I did, in fact, do what you say I did, it certainly sounds like I deserved it.” “What do you mean, if you did? I know you did—” “Is that right?” “Of course it’s right!” “Then tell me, love, what happened to the boy?” “What?” I freeze; icicles creep up my arms. “What happened,” he says, “to that little boy? You say that you set him on the ground. But then you proceeded to break through a concrete wall fitted with a thick, six-foot-wide mirror, with no apparent regard for the toddler you claim was wandering around the room. Don’t you think the poor child would’ve been injured in such a wild, reckless display? My soldiers certainly were. You broke down a wall of concrete, love. You crushed an enormous piece of glass. You did not stop to ascertain where the blocks or the shattered bits had fallen or who they might’ve injured in the process.” He stops. Stares. “Did you?” “No,” I gasp, blood draining from my body. “So what happened after you walked away?” he asks. “Or do you not remember that part? You turned around and left, just after destroying the room, injuring my men, and tossing me to the floor. You turned around,” he says, “and walked right out.” I’m numb now, remembering. It’s true. I did. I didn’t think. I just knew I needed to get out of there as fast as possible. I needed to get away, to clear my head. “So what happened to the boy?” Warner insists. “Where was he when you were leaving? Did you see him?” A lift of his eyebrows. “And what about the spikes?” he says. “Did you bother to look closely at the ground to see where they might’ve come from? Or how they might’ve punctured a carpeted floor without causing any damage? Did you feel the surface under your feet to be shredded or uneven?” I’m breathing hard now, struggling to stay calm. I can’t tear myself away from his gaze. “Juliette, love,” he says softly. “There were no speakers in that room. That room is entirely soundproof, equipped with nothing but sensors and cameras. It is a simulation chamber.” “No,” I breathe, refusing to believe. Not wanting to accept that I was wrong, that Warner isn’t the monster I thought he was. He can’t change things now. Can’t confuse me like this. This isn’t the way it’s supposed to work. “That’s not possible—” “I am guilty,” he says, “of forcing you to undergo such a cruel simulation. I accept the fault for that, and I’ve already apologized for my actions. I only meant to push you into finally reacting, and I knew that sort of re-creation would quickly trigger something inside of you. But good God, love”—he shakes his head—“you must have an absurdly low opinion of me if you think I would steal someone’s child just to watch you torture it.” “It wasn’t real?” I don’t recognize my own raspy, panicked voice. “It wasn’t real?” He offers me a sympathetic smile. “I designed the basic elements of the simulation, but the beauty of the program is that it will evolve and adapt as it processes a soldier’s most visceral responses. We use it to train soldiers who must overcome specific fears or prepare for a particularly sensitive mission. We can re-create almost any environment,” he says. “Even soldiers who know what they’re getting into will forget that they’re performing in a simulation.” He averts his eyes. “I knew it would be terrifying for you, and I did it anyway. And for hurting you, I feel true regret. But no,” he says quietly, meeting my eyes again. “None of it was real. You imagined my voice in that room. You imagined the pain, the sounds, the smells. All of it was in your mind.” “I don’t want to believe you,” I say to him, my voice scarcely a whisper. He tries to smile. “Why do you think I gave you those clothes?” he asks. “The material of that outfit was lined with a chemical designed to react to the sensors in that room. And the less you’re wearing, the more easily the cameras can track the heat in your body, your movements.” He shakes his head. “I never had a chance to explain what you’d experienced. I wanted to follow you immediately, but I thought I should give you time to collect yourself. It was a stupid decision, on my end.” His jaw tenses. “I waited, and I shouldn’t have. Because when I found you, it was too late. You were ready to jump out a window just to get away from me.” “For good reason,” I snap. He holds up his hands in surrender. “You are a terrible person!” I explode, throwing the rest of the pillows at his face, angry and horrified and humiliated all at once. “Why would you put me through something like that when you know what I’ve been through, you stupid, arrogant—” “Juliette, please,” he says, stepping forward, dodging a pillow to reach for my arms. “I am sorry for hurting you, but I really think it was worth—” “Don’t touch me!” I jerk away, glaring, clutching the foot of his bed like it might be a weapon. “I should shoot you all over again for doing that to me! I should—I should—” “What?” He laughs. “You’re going to throw another pillow at me?” I shove him, hard, and when he doesn’t budge, I start throwing punches. I’m hitting his chest, his arms, his stomach, and his legs, anywhere I can reach, wishing more than ever that he weren’t able to absorb my power, that I could actually crush all the bones in his body and make him writhe in pain beneath my hands. “You . . . selfish . . . monster!” I keep throwing poorly aimed fists in his direction, not realizing how much the effort exhausts me, not realizing how quickly the anger dissolves into pain. Suddenly all I want to do is cry. My body is shaking in both relief and terror, finally unshackled from the fear that I’d caused another innocent child some kind of irreparable damage, and simultaneously horrified that Warner would ever force such a terrible thing on me. To help me. “I’m so sorry,” he says, stepping closer. “I really, truly am. I didn’t know you then. Not like I do now. I’d never do that to you now.” “You don’t know me,” I mumble, wiping away tears. “You think you know me just because you’ve read my journal—you stupid, prying, privacy-stealing asshole—” “Oh, right—about that—” He smiles, one quick hand plucking the journal out of my pocket as he moves toward the door. “I’m afraid I wasn’t finished reading this.” “Hey!” I protest, swiping at him as he walks away. “You said you’d give that back to me!” “I said no such thing,” he says, subdued, dropping the journal into his own pants pocket. “Now please wait here a moment. I’m going to get you something to eat.” I’m still shouting as he closes the door behind him. SEVEN I fall backward onto the bed and make an angry noise deep inside my throat. Chuck a pillow at the wall. I need to do something. I need to start moving. I need to finish forming a plan. I’ve been on the defense and on the run for so long now that my mind has often been occupied by elaborate and hopeless daydreams about overthrowing The Reestablishment. I spent most of my 264 days in that cell fantasizing about exactly this kind of impossible moment: the day I’d be able to spit in the face of those who’d oppressed me and everyone else just beyond my window. And though I dreamed up a million different scenarios in which I would stand up and defend myself, I never actually thought I’d have a chance to make it happen. I never thought I’d have the power, the opportunity, or the courage. But now? Everyone is gone. I might be the only one left. At Omega Point I was happy to let Castle lead. I didn’t know much about anything, and I was still too scared to act. Castle was already in charge and already had a plan, so I trusted that he knew best; that they knew better. A mistake. I’ve always known, deep down, who should be leading this resistance. I’ve felt it quietly for some time now, always too scared to bring the words to my lips. Someone who’s got nothing left to lose and everything to gain. Someone no longer afraid of anyone. Not Castle. Not Kenji. Not Adam. Not even Warner. It should be me. I look closely at my outfit for the first time and realize I must be wearing more of Warner’s old clothes. I’m drowning in a faded orange T-shirt and a pair of gray sweatpants that almost falls off my hips every time I stand up straight. I take a moment to regain my equilibrium, testing my full weight on the thick, plush carpet under my bare feet. I roll the waistband of the pants a few times, just until they sit snugly at my hip bone, and then I ball up the extra material of the T-shirt and knot it at the back. I’m vaguely aware that I must look ridiculous, but fitting the clothes to my frame gives me some modicum of control and I cling to it. It makes me feel a little more awake, a little more in command of my situation. All I need now is a rubber band. My hair is too heavy; it’s begun to feel like it’s suffocating me, and I’m desperate to get it off my neck. I’m desperate to take a shower, actually. I spin around at the sound of the door. I’m caught in the middle of a thought, holding my hair up with both hands in a makeshift ponytail, and suddenly acutely aware of the fact that I’m not wearing any underwear. Warner is holding a tray. He’s staring at me, unblinking. His gaze sweeps across my face, down my neck, my arms. Stops at my waist. I follow his eyes only to realize that my movements have lifted my shirt and exposed my stomach. And I suddenly understand why he’s staring. The memory of his kisses along my torso; his hands exploring my back, my bare legs, the backs of my thighs, his fingers hooking around the elastic band of my underwear— Oh I drop my hands and my hair at the same time, the brown waves falling hard and fast around my shoulders, my back, hitting my waist. My face is on fire. Warner is suddenly transfixed by a spot directly above my head. “I should probably cut my hair,” I say to no one in particular, not understanding why I’ve even said it. I don’t want to cut my hair. I want to lock myself in the toilet. He doesn’t respond. He carries the tray closer to the bed and it’s not until I spot the glasses of water and the plates of food that I realize exactly how hungry I am. I can’t remember the last time I ate anything; I’ve been surviving off the energy recharge I received when my wound was healed. “Have a seat,” he says, not meeting my eyes. He nods to the floor before folding himself onto the carpet. I sit down across from him. He pushes the tray in front of me. “Thank you,” I say, my eyes focused on the meal. “This looks delicious.” There’s tossed salad and fragrant, colorful rice. Diced, seasoned potatoes and a small helping of steamed vegetables. A little cup of chocolate pudding. A bowl of fresh-cut fruit. Two glasses of water. It’s a meal I would’ve scoffed at when I first arrived. If I knew then what I know now, I would’ve taken advantage of every opportunity Warner had given me. I would’ve eaten the food and taken the clothes. I would’ve built up my strength and paid closer attention when he showed me around base. I would’ve been looking for escape routes and excuses to tour the compounds. And then I would’ve bolted. I would’ve found a way to survive on my own. And I never would’ve dragged Adam down with me. I never would’ve gotten myself and so many others into this mess. If only I had eaten the stupid food. I was a scared, broken girl, fighting back the only way I knew how. It’s no wonder I failed. I wasn’t in my right mind. I was weak and terrified and blind to the idea of possibility. I had no experience with stealth or manipulation. I hardly knew how to interact with people—could barely understand the words in my own head. It shocks me to think how much I’ve changed in these past months. I feel like a completely different person. Sharper, somehow. Hardened, absolutely. And for the first time in my life, willing to admit that I’m angry. It’s liberating. I look up suddenly, feeling the weight of Warner’s gaze. He’s staring at me like he’s intrigued, fascinated. “What are you thinking about?” he asks. I stab a piece of potato with my fork. “I’m thinking I was an idiot for ever turning down a plate of hot food.” He raises an eyebrow at me. “I can’t say I disagree.” I shoot him a dirty look. “You were so broken when you got here,” he says, taking a deep breath. “I was so confused. I kept waiting for you to go insane, to jump on the table at dinner and start taking swipes at my soldiers. I was sure you were going to try and kill everyone, and instead, you were stubborn and pouty, refusing to change out of your filthy clothes and complaining about eating your vegetables.” I go pink. “At first,” he says, laughing, “I thought you were plotting something. I thought you were pretending to be complacent just to distract me from some greater goal. I thought your anger over such petty things was a ruse,” he says, his eyes mocking me. “I figured it had to be.” I cross my arms. “The extravagance was disgusting. So much money is wasted on the army while other people are starving to death.” Warner waves a hand, shaking his head. “That’s not the point. The point,” he says, “is that I hadn’t provided you with any of those things for some calculated, underhanded reason. It wasn’t some kind of a test.” He laughs. “I wasn’t trying to challenge you and your scruples. I thought I was doing you a favor. You’d come from this disgusting, miserable hole in the ground. I wanted you to have a real mattress. To be able to shower in peace. To have beautiful, fresh clothes. And you needed to eat,” he says. “You’d been starved half to death.” I stiffen, slightly mollified. “Maybe,” I say. “But you were crazy. You were a controlling maniac. You wouldn’t even let me talk to the other soldiers.” “Because they are animals,” he snaps, his voice unexpectedly sharp. I look up, startled, to meet his angry, flashing green eyes. “You, who have spent the majority of your life locked away,” he says, “have not had the opportunity to understand just how beautiful you are, or what kind of effect that can have on a person. I was worried for your safety,” he says. “You were timid and weak and living on a military base full of lonely, fully armed, thickheaded soldiers three times your size. I didn’t want them harassing you. I made a spectacle out of your display with Jenkins because I wanted them to have proof of your abilities. I needed them to see that you were a formidable opponent—one they’d do well to stay away from. I was trying to protect you.” I can’t look away from the intensity in his eyes. “How little you must think of me.” He shakes his head in shock. “I had no idea you hated me so much. That everything I tried to do to help you had come under such harsh scrutiny.” “How can you be surprised? What choice did I have but to expect the worst from you? You were arrogant and crass and you treated me like a piece of property—” “Because I had to!” He cuts me off, unrepentant. “My every move—every word—is monitored when I am not confined to my own quarters. My entire life depends on maintaining a certain type of personality.” “What about that soldier you shot in the forehead? Seamus Fletcher?” I challenge him, angry again. Now that I’ve let it enter my life, I’m realizing anger comes a little too naturally to me. “Was that all a part of your plan, too? No wait, don’t tell me”—I hold up a hand—“that was just a simulation, right?” Warner goes rigid. He sits back; his jaw twitches. He looks at me with a mixture of sadness and rage in his eyes. “No,” he finally says, deathly soft. “That was not a simulation.” “So you have no problem with that?” I ask him. “You have no regrets over killing a man for stealing a little extra food? For trying to survive, just like you?” Warner bites down on his bottom lip for half a second. Clasps his hands in his lap. “Wow,” he says. “How quickly you jump to his defense.” “He was an innocent man,” I tell him. “He didn’t deserve to die. Not for that. Not like that.” “Seamus Fletcher,” Warner says calmly, staring into his open palms, “was a drunken bastard who was beating his wife and children. He hadn’t fed them in two weeks. He’d punched his nine-year-old daughter in the mouth, breaking her two front teeth and fracturing her jaw. He beat his pregnant wife so hard she lost the child. He had two other children, too,” he says. “A seven-year-old boy and a five-year-old girl.” A pause. “He broke both their arms.” My food is forgotten. “I monitor the lives of our citizens very carefully,” Warner says. “I like to know who they are and how they’re thriving. I probably shouldn’t care,” he says, “but I do.” I’m thinking I’m never going to open my mouth ever again. “I have never claimed to live by any set of principles,” Warner says to me. “I’ve never claimed to be right, or good, or even justified in my actions. The simple truth is that I do not care. I have been forced to do terrible things in my life, love, and I am seeking neither your forgiveness nor your approval. Because I do not have the luxury of philosophizing over scruples when I’m forced to act on basic instinct every day.” He meets my eyes. “Judge me,” he says, “all you like. But I have no tolerance,” he says sharply, “for a man who beats his wife. No tolerance,” he says, “for a man who beats his children.” He’s breathing hard now. “Seamus Fletcher was murdering his family,” he says to me. “And you can call it whatever the hell you want to call it, but I will never regret killing a man who would bash his wife’s face into a wall. I will never regret killing a man who would punch his nine-year-old daughter in the mouth. I am not sorry,” he says. “And I will not apologize. Because a child is better off with no father, and a wife is better off with no husband, than one like that.” I watch the hard movement in his throat. “I would know.” “I’m sorry—Warner, I—” He holds up a hand to stop me. He steadies himself, his eyes focused on the plates of untouched food. “I’ve said it before, love, and I’m sorry I have to say it again, but you do not understand the choices I have to make. You don’t know what I’ve seen and what I’m forced to witness every single day.” He hesitates. “And I wouldn’t want you to. But do not presume to understand my actions,” he says, finally meeting my eyes. “Because if you do, I can assure you you’ll only be met with disappointment. And if you insist on continuing to make assumptions about my character, I’ll advise you only this: assume you will always be wrong.” He hauls himself up with a casual elegance that startles me. Smooths out his slacks. Pushes his sleeves up again. “I’ve had your armoire moved into my closet,” he says. “There are things for you to change into, if you’d like that. The bed and bathroom are yours. I have work to do,” he says. “I’ll be sleeping in my office tonight.” And with that, he opens the adjoining door to his office, and locks himself inside. EIGHT My food is cold. I poke at the potatoes and force myself to finish the meal even though I’ve lost my appetite. I can’t help but wonder if I’ve finally pushed Warner too far. I thought the revelations had come to a close for today, but I was wrong again. It makes me wonder just how much is left, and how much more I’ll learn about Warner in the coming days. Months. And I’m scared. Because the more I discover about him, the fewer excuses I have to push him away. He’s unraveling before me, becoming something entirely different; terrifying me in a way I never could’ve expected. And all I can think is not now. Not here. Not when so much is uncertain. If only my emotions would understand the importance of excellent timing. I never realized Warner was unaware of how deeply I’d detested him. I suppose now I can better understand how he saw himself, how he’d never viewed his actions as guilty or criminal. Maybe he thought I would’ve given him the benefit of the doubt. That I would’ve been able to read him as easily as he’s been able to read me. But I couldn’t. I didn’t. And now I can’t help but wonder if I’ve managed to disappoint him, somehow. Why I even care. I clamber to my feet with a sigh, hating my own uncertainty. Because while I might not be able to deny my physical attraction to him, I still can’t shake my initial impressions of his character. It’s not easy for me to switch so suddenly, to recognize him as anything but some kind of manipulative monster. I need time to adjust to the idea of Warner as a normal person. But I’m tired of thinking. And right now, all I want to do is shower. I drag myself toward the open door of the bathroom before I remember what Warner said about my clothes. That he’d moved my armoire into his closet. I look around, searching for another door and finding none but the locked entry to his office. I’m half tempted to knock and ask him directly but decide against it. Instead, I study the walls more closely, wondering why Warner wouldn’t have given me instructions if his closet was hard to find. But then I see it. A switch. It’s more of a button, actually, but it sits flush with the wall. It would be almost impossible to spot if you weren’t actively searching for it. I press the button. A panel in the wall slides out of place. And as I step across the threshold, the room illuminates on its own. This closet is bigger than his entire bedroom. The walls and ceiling are tiled with slabs of white stone that gleam under the fluorescent recessed lighting; the floors are covered with thick Oriental rugs. There’s a small suede couch the color of light-green jade stationed in the very center of the room, but it’s an odd sort of couch: it doesn’t have a back. It looks like an oversized ottoman. And strangest of all: there’s not a single mirror in here. I spin around, my eyes searching, certain I must’ve overlooked such an obvious staple, and I’m so caught up in the details of the space that I almost miss the clothes. The clothes. They’re everywhere, on display as if they were works of art. Glossy, dark wood units are built into the walls, shelves lined with rows and rows of shoes. All the other closet space is dedicated to hanging racks, each wall housing different categories of clothing. Everything is color coordinated. He owns more coats, more shoes, more pants and shirts than I’ve ever seen in my life. Ties and bow ties, belts, scarves, gloves, and cuff links. Beautiful, rich fabrics: silk blends and starched cotton, soft wool and cashmere. Dress shoes and buttery leather boots buffed and polished to perfection. A peacoat in a dark, burnt shade of orange; a trench coat in a deep navy blue. A winter toggle coat in a stunning shade of plum. I dare to run my fingers along the different materials, wondering how many of these pieces he’s actually worn. I’m amazed. It’s always been apparent that Warner takes pride in his appearance; his outfits are impeccable; his clothes fit him like they were cut for his body. But now I finally understand why he took such care with my wardrobe. He wasn’t trying to patronize me. He was enjoying himself. Aaron Warner Anderson, chief commander and regent of Sector 45, son of the supreme commander of The Reestablishment. He has a soft spot for fashion. After my initial shock wears off, I’m able to easily locate my old armoire. It’s been placed unceremoniously in a corner of the room, and I’m almost sorry for it. It stands out awkwardly against the rest of the space. I quickly shuffle through the drawers, grateful for the first time to have clean things to change into. Warner anticipated all of my needs before I arrived on base. The armoire is full of dresses and shirts and pants, but it’s also been stocked with socks, bras, and underwear. And even though I know this should make me feel awkward, somehow it doesn’t. The underwear is simple and understated. Cotton basics that are exactly average and perfectly functional. He bought these things before he knew me, and knowing that they weren’t purchased with any level of intimacy makes me feel less self-conscious about it all. I grab a small T-shirt, a pair of cotton pajama bottoms, and all of my brand-new underthings, and slip out of the room. The lights immediately switch off as soon as I’m back in the bedroom, and I hit the button to close the panel. I look around his bedroom with new eyes, reacclimating to this smaller, standard sort of space. Warner’s bedroom looks almost identical to the one I occupied while on base, and I always wondered why. There are no personal effects anywhere; no pictures, no odd knickknacks. But suddenly it all makes sense. His bedroom doesn’t mean anything to him. It’s little more than a place to sleep. But his closet—that was his style, his design. It’s probably the only space he cares about in this room. It makes me wonder what the inside of his office looks like, and my eyes dart to his door before I remember how he’s locked himself inside. I stifle a sigh and head toward the bathroom, planning to shower, change, and fall asleep immediately. This day felt more like a few years, and I’m ready to be done with it. Hopefully tomorrow we’ll be able to head back to Omega Point and finally make some progress. But no matter what happens next, and no matter what we discover, I’m determined to find my way to Anderson, even if I have to go alone. NINE I can’t scream. My lungs won’t expand. My breaths keep coming in short gasps. My chest feels too tight and my throat is closing up and I’m trying to shout and I can’t, I can’t stop wheezing, thrashing my arms and trying desperately to breathe but the effort is futile. No one can hear me. No one will ever know that I’m dying, that there’s a hole in my chest filling with blood and pain and such unbearable agony and there’s so much of it, so much blood, hot and pooling around me and I can’t, I can’t, I can’t breathe— “Juliette—Juliette, love, wake up—wake up—” I jerk up so quickly I double over. I’m heaving in deep, harsh, gasping breaths, so overcome, so relieved to be able to get oxygen into my lungs that I can’t speak, can’t do anything but try to inhale as much as possible. My whole body is shaking, my skin is clammy, going from hot to cold too quickly. I can’t steady myself, can’t stop the silent tears, can’t shake the nightmare, can’t shake the memory. I can’t stop gasping for air. Warner’s hands cup my face. The warmth of his skin helps calm me somehow, and I finally feel my heart rate begin to slow. “Look at me,” he says. I force myself to meet his eyes, shaking as I catch my breath. “It’s okay,” he whispers, still holding my cheeks. “It was just a bad dream. Try closing your mouth,” he says, “and breathing through your nose.” He nods. “There you go. Easy. You’re okay.” His voice is so soft, so melodic, so inexplicably tender. I can’t look away from his eyes. I’m afraid to blink, afraid to be pulled back into my nightmare. “I won’t let go until you’re ready,” he tells me. “Don’t worry. Take your time.” I close my eyes. I feel my heart slow to a normal beat. My muscles begin to unclench, my hands steady their tremble. And even though I’m not actively crying, I can’t stop the tears from streaming down my face. But then something in my body breaks, crumples from the inside, and I’m suddenly so exhausted I can no longer hold myself up. Somehow, Warner seems to understand. He helps me sit back on the bed, pulls the blankets up around my shoulders. I’m shivering, wiping away the last of my tears. Warner runs a hand over my hair. “It’s okay,” he says softly. “You’re okay.” “Aren’t y-you going to sleep, too?” I stammer, wondering what time it is. I notice he’s still fully dressed. “I . . . yes,” he says. Even in this dim light I can see the surprise in his eyes. “Eventually. I don’t often go to bed this early.” “Oh.” I blink, breathing a little easier now. “What time is it?” “Two o’clock in the morning.” It’s my turn to be surprised. “Don’t we have to be up in a few hours?” “Yes.” The ghost of a smile touches his lips. “But I’m almost never able to fall asleep when I should. I can’t seem to turn my mind off,” he says, grinning at me for only a moment longer before he turns to leave. “Stay.” The word escapes my lips even before I’ve had a chance to think it through. I’m not sure why I’ve said it. Maybe because it’s late and I’m still shaking, and maybe having him close might scare my nightmares away. Or maybe it’s because I’m weak and grieving and need a friend right now. I’m not sure. But there’s something about the darkness, the stillness of this hour, I think, that creates a language of its own. There’s a strange kind of freedom in the dark; a terrifying vulnerability we allow ourselves at exactly the wrong moment, tricked by the darkness into thinking it will keep our secrets. We forget that the blackness is not a blanket; we forget that the sun will soon rise. But in the moment, at least, we feel brave enough to say things we’d never say in the light. Except for Warner, who doesn’t say a word. For a split second he actually looks alarmed. He’s staring at me in silent terror, too stunned to speak, and I’m about to take it all back and hide under the covers when he catches my arm. I still. He tugs me forward until I’m nestled against his chest. His arms fall around me carefully, as if he’s telling me I can pull away, that he’ll understand, that it’s my choice. But I feel so safe, so warm, so devastatingly content that I can’t seem to come up with a single reason why I shouldn’t enjoy this moment. I press closer, hiding my face in the soft folds of his shirt, and his arms wrap more tightly around me, his chest rising and falling. My hands come up to rest against his stomach, the hard muscles tensed under my touch. My left hand slips around his ribs, up his back, and Warner freezes, his heart racing under my ear. My eyes fall closed just as I feel him try to inhale. “Oh God,” he gasps. He jerks back, breaks away. “I can’t do this. I won’t survive it.” “What?” He’s already on his feet and I can only make out enough of his silhouette to see that he’s shaking. “I can’t keep doing this—” “Warner—” “I thought I could walk away the last time,” he says. “I thought I could let you go and hate you for it but I can’t. Because you make it so damn difficult,” he says. “Because you don’t play fair. You go and do something like get yourself shot,” he says, “and you ruin me in the process.” I try to remain perfectly still. I try not to make a sound. But my mind won’t stop racing and my heart won’t stop pounding and with just a few words he’s managed to dismantle my most concentrated efforts to forget what I did to him. I don’t know what to do. My eyes finally adjust to the darkness and I blink, only to find him looking into my eyes like he can see into my soul. I’m not ready for this. Not yet. Not yet. Not like this. But a rush of feelings, images of his hands, his arms, his lips are charging through my mind and I try but can’t push the thoughts away, can’t ignore the scent of his skin and the insane familiarity of his body. I can almost hear his heart thrumming in his chest, can see the tense movement in his jaw, can feel the power quietly contained within him. And suddenly his face changes. Worries. “What’s wrong?” he asks. “Are you scared?” I startle, breathing faster, grateful he can only sense the general direction of my feelings and not more than that. For a moment I actually want to say no. No, I’m not scared. I’m petrified. Because being this close to you is doing things to me. Strange things and irrational things and things that flutter against my chest and braid my bones together. I want a pocketful of punctuation marks to end the thoughts he’s forced into my head. But I don’t say any of those things. Instead, I ask a question I already know the answer to. “Why would I be scared?” “You’re shaking,” he says. “Oh.” The two letters and their small, startled sound run right out of my mouth to seek refuge in a place far from here. I keep wishing I had the strength to look away from him in moments like this. I keep wishing my cheeks wouldn’t so easily enflame. I keep wasting my wishes on stupid things, I think. “No, I’m not scared,” I finally say. But I really need him to step away from me. I really need him to do me that favor. “I’m just surprised.” He’s silent, then, his eyes imploring me for an explanation. He’s become both familiar and foreign to me in such a short period of time; exactly and nothing like I thought he’d be. “You allow the world to think you’re a heartless murderer,” I tell him. “And you’re not.” He laughs, once; his eyebrows lift in surprise. “No,” he says. “I’m afraid I’m just the regular kind of murderer.” “But why—why would you pretend to be so ruthless?” I ask. “Why do you allow people to treat you that way?” He sighs. Pushes his rolled-up shirtsleeves above his elbows again. I can’t help but follow the movement, my eyes lingering along his forearms. And I realize, for the first time, that he doesn’t sport any military tattoos like everyone else. I wonder why. “What difference does it make?” he says. “People can think whatever they like. I don’t desire their validation.” “So you don’t mind,” I ask him, “that people judge you so harshly?” “I have no one to impress,” he says. “No one who cares about what happens to me. I’m not in the business of making friends, love. My job is to lead an army, and it’s the only thing I’m good at. No one,” he says, “would be proud of the things I’ve accomplished. My mother doesn’t even know me anymore. My father thinks I’m weak and pathetic. My soldiers want me dead. The world is going to hell. And the conversations I have with you are the longest I’ve ever had.” “What—really?” I ask, eyes wide. “Really.” “And you trust me with all this information?” I say. “Why share your secrets with me?” His eyes darken, deaden, all of a sudden. He looks toward the wall. “Don’t do that,” he says. “Don’t ask me questions you already know the answers to. Twice I’ve laid myself bare for you and all it’s gotten me was a bullet wound and a broken heart. Don’t torture me,” he says, meeting my eyes again. “It’s a cruel thing to do, even to someone like me.” “Warner—” “I don’t understand!” He breaks, finally losing his composure, his voice rising in pitch. “What could Kent,” he says, spitting the name, “possibly do for you?” I’m so shocked, so unprepared to answer such a question that I’m rendered momentarily speechless. I don’t even know what’s happened to Adam, where he might be or what our future holds. Right now all I’m clinging to is a hope that he made it out alive. That he’s out there somewhere, surviving against the odds. Right now, that certainty would be enough for me. So I take a deep breath and try to find the right words, the right way to explain that there are so many bigger, heavier issues to deal with, but when I look up I find Warner is still staring at me, waiting for an answer to a question I now realize he’s been trying hard to suppress. Something that must be eating away at him. And I suppose he deserves an answer. Especially after what I did to him. So I take a deep breath. “It’s not something I know how to explain,” I say. “He’s . . . I don’t know.” I stare into my hands. “He was my first friend. The first person to treat me with respect—to love me.” I’m quiet a moment. “He’s always been so kind to me.” Warner flinches. His eyes widen in shock. “He’s always been so kind to you?” “Yes,” I whisper. Warner laughs a harsh, hollow sort of laugh. “This is incredible,” he says, staring at the door, one hand caught in his hair. “I’ve been consumed by this question for the past three days, trying desperately to understand why you would give yourself to me so willingly, just to rip my heart out at the very last moment for some—some bland, utterly replaceable automaton. I kept thinking there had to be some great reason, something I’d overlooked, something I wasn’t able to fathom.” “And I was ready to accept it,” he says. “I’d forced myself to accept it because I figured your reasons were deep and beyond my grasp. I was willing to let you go if you’d found something extraordinary. Someone who could know you in ways I’d never be able to comprehend. Because you deserve that,” he says. “I told myself you deserved more than me, more than my miserable offerings.” He shakes his head. “But this?” he says, appalled. “These words? This explanation? You chose him because he’s kind to you? Because he’s offered you basic charity?” I’m suddenly angry. I’m suddenly mortified. I’m outraged by the permission Warner’s granted himself to judge my life—that he thought he’d been generous by stepping aside. I narrow my eyes, clench my fists. “It’s not charity,” I snap. “He cares about me—and I care about him!” Warner nods, unimpressed. “You should get a dog, love. I hear they share much the same qualities.” “You are unbelievable!” I shove myself upward, scrambling to my feet and regretting it. I have to cling to the bed frame to steady myself. “My relationship with Adam is none of your business!” “Your relationship?” Warner laughs, loud. He moves quickly to face me from the other side of the bed, leaving several feet between us. “What relationship? Does he even know anything about you? Does he understand you? Does he know your wants, your fears, the truth you conceal in your heart?” “Oh, and what? You do?” “You know damn well that I do!” he shouts, pointing an accusatory finger at me. “And I’m willing to bet my life that he has no idea what you’re really like. You tiptoe around his feelings, pretending to be a nice little girl for him, don’t you? You’re afraid of scaring him off. You’re afraid of telling him too much—” “You don’t know anything!” “Oh I know,” he says, rushing forward. “I understand perfectly. He’s fallen for your quiet, timid shell. For who you used to be. He has no idea what you’re capable of. What you might do if you’re pushed too far.” His hand slips behind my neck; he leans in until our lips are only inches apart. What is happening to my lungs. “You’re a coward,” he whispers. “You want to be with me and it terrifies you. And you’re ashamed,” he says. “Ashamed you could ever want someone like me. Aren’t you?” He drops his gaze and his nose grazes mine and I can almost count the millimeters between our lips. I’m struggling to focus, trying to remember that I’m mad at him, mad about something, but his mouth is right in front of mine and my mind can’t stop trying to figure out how to shove aside the space between us. “You want me,” he says softly, his hands moving up my back, “and it’s killing you.” I jerk backward, breaking away, hating my body for reacting to him, for falling apart like this. My joints feel flimsy, my legs have lost their bones. I need oxygen, need a brain, need to find my lungs— “You deserve so much more than charity,” he says, his chest heaving. “You deserve to live. You deserve to be alive.” He’s staring at me, unblinking. “Come back to life, love. I’ll be here when you wake up.” TEN I wake up on my stomach. My face is buried in the pillows, my arms hugging their soft contours. I blink steadily, my bleary eyes taking in my surroundings, trying to remember where I am. I squint into the brightness of the day. My hair falls into my face as I lift my head to look around. “Good morning.” I startle for no good reason, sitting up too quickly and clutching a pillow to my chest for an equally inexplicable reason. Warner is standing at the foot of the bed, fully dressed. He’s wearing black pants and a slate-green sweater that clings to the shape of his body, the sleeves pushed up his forearms. His hair is perfect. His eyes are alert, awake, impossibly brightened by the green of his shirt. And he’s holding a steaming mug in his hand. Smiling at me. I offer him a limp wave. “Coffee?” he asks, offering me the mug. I stare at it, doubtful. “I’ve never had coffee before.” “It isn’t terrible,” he says with a shrug. “Delalieu is obsessed with it. Isn’t that right, Delalieu?” I jerk backward on the bed, my head nearly hitting the wall behind me. An older, kindly-looking gentleman smiles at me from the corner of the room. His thin brown hair and twitchy mustache look vaguely familiar to me, as if I’ve seen him on base before. I notice he’s standing next to a breakfast cart. “It’s a pleasure to officially meet you, Miss Ferrars,” he says. His voice is a little shaky, but not at all intimidating. His eyes are unexpectedly sincere. “The coffee really is quite good,” he says. “I have it every day. Though I always have m-mine with—” “Cream and sugar,” Warner says with a wry smile, his eyes laughing as if at some private joke. “Yes. Though I’m afraid the sugar is a bit too much for me. I find I prefer the bitterness.” He glances at me again. “The choice is yours.” “What’s going on?” I ask. “Breakfast,” Warner says, his eyes revealing nothing. “I thought you might be hungry.” “It’s okay that he’s here?” I whisper, knowing full well that Delalieu can hear me. “That he knows I’m here?” Warner nods. Offers me no other explanation. “Okay,” I tell him. “I’ll try the coffee.” I crawl across the bed to reach for the mug, and Warner’s eyes follow my movements, traveling from my face to the shape of my body to the rumpled pillows and sheets beneath my hands and knees. When he finally meets my eyes he looks away too quickly, handing me the mug only to put an entire room between us. “So how much does Delalieu know?” I ask, glancing at the older gentleman. “What do you mean?” Warner raises an eyebrow. “Well, does he know that I’m leaving?” I raise an eyebrow, too. Warner stares. “You promised you’d get me off base,” I say to him, “and I’m hoping Delalieu is here to help you with that. Though if it’s too much trouble, I’m always happy to take the window.” I cock my head. “It worked out well the last time.” Warner narrows his eyes at me, his lips a thin line. He’s still glaring when he nods at the breakfast cart beside him. “This is how we’re getting you out of here today.” I choke on my first sip of coffee. “What?” “It’s the easiest, most efficient solution,” Warner says. “You’re small and lightweight, you can easily fold yourself into a tight space, and the cloth panels will keep you hidden from sight. I’m often working in my room,” he says. “Delalieu brings me my breakfast trays from time to time. No one will suspect anything unusual.” I look at Delalieu for some kind of confirmation. He nods eagerly. “How did you get me here in the first place?” I ask. “Why can’t we just do the same thing?” Warner studies one of the breakfast plates. “I’m afraid that option is no longer available to us.” “What do you mean?” My body seizes with a sudden anxiety. “How did you get me in here?” “You weren’t exactly conscious,” he says. “We had to be a little more . . . creative.” “Delalieu.” The old man looks up at the sound of my voice, clearly surprised to be addressed so directly. “Yes, miss?” “How did you get me into the building?” Delalieu glances at Warner, whose gaze is now firmly fixed on the wall. Delalieu looks at me, offers me an apologetic smile. “We—well, we carted you in,” he says. “How?” “Sir,” Delalieu says suddenly, his eyes imploring Warner for direction. “We brought you in,” Warner says, stifling a sigh, “in a body bag.” My limbs go stiff with fear. “You what?” “You were unconscious, love. We didn’t have many options. I couldn’t very well carry you onto base in my arms.” He shoots me a look. “There were many casualties from the battle,” he says. “On both sides. A body bag was easily overlooked.” I’m gaping at him. “Don’t worry.” He smiles. “I cut some holes in it for you.” “You’re so thoughtful,” I snap. “It was thoughtful,” I hear Delalieu say. I look at him to find he’s watching me in shock, appalled by my behavior. “Our commander was saving your life.” I flinch. I stare into my coffee cup, heat coloring my cheeks. My conversations with Warner have never had an audience before. I wonder what our interactions must look like to an outside observer. “It’s all right, Lieutenant,” Warner says. “She tends to get angry when she’s terrified. It’s little more than a defense mechanism. The idea of being folded into such a small space has likely triggered her claustrophobic tendencies.” I look up suddenly. Warner is staring directly at me, his eyes deep with an unspoken understanding. I keep forgetting that Warner is able to sense emotions, that he can always tell what I’m really feeling. And he knows me well enough to be able to put everything into context. I’m utterly transparent to him. And somehow—right now, at least—I’m grateful for it. “Of course, sir,” Delalieu says. “My apologies.” “Feel free to shower and change,” Warner says to me. “I left some clothes for you in the bathroom—no dresses,” he says, fighting a smile. “We’ll wait here. Delalieu and I have a few things to discuss.” I nod, untangling myself from the bedsheets and stumbling to my feet. I tug on the hem of my T-shirt, self-conscious all of a sudden, feeling rumpled and disheveled in front of these two military men. I stare at them for a moment. Warner gestures to the bathroom door. I take the coffee with me as I go, wondering all the while who Delalieu is and why Warner seems to trust him. I thought he said all of his soldiers wanted him dead. I wish I could listen in on their conversation, but they’re both careful to say nothing until the bathroom door shuts behind me. ELEVEN I take a quick shower, careful not to let the water touch my hair. I already washed it last night, and the temperature feels brisk this morning; if we’re headed out, I don’t want to risk catching a cold. It’s difficult, though, to avoid the temptation of a long shower—and hot water—in Warner’s bathroom. I dress quickly, grabbing the folded clothes Warner left on a shelf for me. Dark jeans and a soft, navy-blue sweater. Fresh socks and underwear. A brand-new pair of tennis shoes. The sizes are perfect. Of course they are. I haven’t worn jeans in so many years that at first the material feels strange to me. The fit is so tight, so tapered; I have to bend my knees to stretch the denim a little. But by the time I tug the sweater over my head, I’m finally feeling comfortable. And even though I miss my suit, there’s something nice about wearing real clothes. No fancy dresses, no cargo pants, no spandex. Just jeans and a sweater, like a normal person. It’s an odd reality. I take a quick look in the mirror, blinking at my reflection. I wish I had something to tie my hair back with; I got so used to being able to pull it out of my face while I was at Omega Point. I look away with a resigned sigh, hoping to get a start on this day as soon as possible. But the minute I crack open the bathroom door, I hear voices. I freeze in place. Listening. “—sure it’s safe, sir?” Delalieu is talking. “Forgive me,” the older man says quickly. “I don’t mean to seem impertinent, but I can’t help but be concerned—” “It’ll be fine. Just make sure our troops aren’t patrolling that area. We should only be gone a few hours at the most.” “Yes, sir.” Silence. Then “Juliette,” Warner says, and I nearly fall into the toilet. “Come out here, love. It’s rude to eavesdrop.” I step out of the bathroom slowly, face flushed with heat from the shower and the shame of being caught in such a juvenile act. I suddenly have no idea what to do with my hands. Warner is enjoying my embarrassment. “Ready to go?” No. No, I’m not. Suddenly hope and fear are strangling me and I have to remind myself to breathe. I’m not ready to face the death and destruction of all my friends. Of course I’m not. But “Yes, of course” is what I say out loud. I’m steeling myself for the truth, in whatever form it arrives. TWELVE Warner was right. Being carted through Sector 45 was a lot easier than I expected. No one noticed us, and the empty space underneath the cart was actually spacious enough for me to sit comfortably. It’s only when Delalieu flips open one of the cloth panels that I realize where we are. I glance around quickly, my eyes taking inventory of the military tanks parked in this vast space. “Quickly,” Delalieu whispers. He motions toward the tank parked closest to us. I watch as the door is pushed open from the inside. “Hurry, miss. You cannot be seen.” I scramble. I jump out from underneath the cart and into the open door of the tank, clambering up and into the seat. The door shuts behind me, and I turn back to see Delalieu looking on, his watery eyes pinched together with worry. The tank starts moving. I nearly fall forward. “Stay low and buckle up, love. These tanks weren’t built for comfort.” Warner is smiling as he stares straight ahead, his hands sheathed in black leather gloves, his body draped in a steel-gray overcoat. I duck down in my seat and fumble for the straps, buckling myself in as best I can. “So you know how to get there?” I ask him. “Of course.” “But your father said you couldn’t remember anything about Omega Point.” Warner glances over, his eyes laughing. “How convenient for us that I’ve regained my memory.” “Hey—how did you even get out of there?” I ask him. “How did you get past the guards?” He shrugs. “I told them I had permission to be out of my room.” I gape at him. “You’re not serious.” “Very.” “But how did you find your way out?” I ask. “You got past the guards, fine. But that place is like a labyrinth—I couldn’t find my way around even after I’d been living there for a month.” Warner checks a display on the dashboard. Hits a few buttons for functions I don’t understand. “I wasn’t completely unconscious when I was carried in,” he says. “I forced myself to pay attention to the entrance,” he says. “I did my best to memorize any obvious landmarks. I also kept track of the amount of time it took to carry me from the entrance to the medical wing, and then from the medical wing to my room. And whenever Castle took me on my rounds to the bathroom,” he says, “I studied my surroundings, trying to gauge how far I was from the exit.” “So—” I frown. “You could’ve defended yourself against the guards and tried to escape much sooner. Why didn’t you?” “I already told you,” he says. “It was oddly luxurious, being confined like that. I was able to catch up on weeks of sleep. I didn’t have to work or deal with any military issues. But the most obvious answer,” he says, exhaling, “is that I stayed because I was able to see you every day.” “Oh.” Warner laughs, his eyes pressed shut for a second. “You really never wanted to be there, did you?” “What do you mean?” He shakes his head. “If you’re going to survive,” he says to me, “you can never be indifferent to your surroundings. You can’t depend on others to take care of you. You cannot presume that someone else will do things right.” “What are you talking about?” “You didn’t care,” he says. “You were there, underground for over a month, grouped together with these supernaturally inclined rebels spouting big, lofty ideals about saving the world, and you say you couldn’t even find your way around. It’s because you didn’t care,” he says. “You didn’t want to participate. If you did, you would’ve taken the initiative to learn as much as possible about your new home. You would’ve been beside yourself with excitement. Instead, you were apathetic. Indifferent.” I open my mouth to protest but I don’t have a chance. “I don’t blame you,” he says. “Their goals were unrealistic. I don’t care how flexible your limbs are or how many objects you can move with your mind. If you do not understand your opponent—or worse, if you underestimate your opponent—you are going to lose.” His jaw tightens. “I kept trying to tell you,” he says, “that Castle was going to lead your group into a massacre. He was too optimistic to be a proper leader, too hopeful to logically consider the odds stacked against him, and too ignorant of The Reestablishment to truly understand how they deal with voices of opposition. “The Reestablishment,” Warner says, “is not interested in maintaining a facade of kindness. The civilians are nothing more than peons to them. They want power,” he says to me, “and they want to be entertained. They are not interested in fixing our problems. They only want to make sure that they are as comfortable as possible as we dig our own graves.” “No.” “Yes,” he says. “It is exactly that simple. Everything else is just a joke to them. The texts, the artifacts, the languages. They just want to scare people, to keep them submissive, and to strip them of their individuality—to herd them into a singular mentality that serves no purpose but their own. This is why they can and will destroy all rebel movements. And this is a fact that your friends did not fully understand. And now,” he says, “they have suffered for their ignorance.” He stops the tank. Turns off the engine. Unlocks my door. And I’m still not ready to face this. THIRTEEN Anyone would be able to find Omega Point now. Any citizen, any civilian, anyone with working vision would be able to tell you where the large crater in Sector 45 is located. Warner was right. I unbuckle myself slowly, reaching blindly for the door handle. I feel like I’m moving through fog, like my legs have been formed from fresh clay. I fail to account for the height of the tank above the ground and stumble into the open air. This is it. The empty, barren stretch of land I’d come to recognize as the area just around Omega Point; the land Castle told us was once lush with greenery and vegetation. He said it’d been the ideal hiding place for Omega Point. But this was before things started changing. Before the weather warped and the plants struggled to flourish. Now it’s a graveyard. Skeletal trees and howling winds, a thin layer of snow powdered over the cold, packed earth. Omega Point is gone. It’s nothing but a huge, gaping hole in the ground about a mile across and 50 feet deep. It’s a bowlful of innards, of death and destruction, silent in the wake of tragedy. Years of effort, so much time and energy spent toward a specific goal, one purpose: a plan to save humanity. Obliterated overnight. A gust of wind climbs into my clothes then, wraps itself around my bones. Icy fingers tiptoe up my pant legs, clench their fists around my knees and pull; suddenly I’m not sure how I’m still standing. My blood feels frozen, brittle. My hands are covering my mouth and I don’t know who put them there. Something heavy falls onto my shoulders. A coat. I look back to find that Warner is watching me. He holds out a pair of gloves. I take the gloves and tug them on over my frozen fingers and wonder why I’m not waking up yet, why no one has reached out to tell me it’s okay, it’s just a bad dream, that everything is going to be fine. I feel as though I’ve been scooped out from the inside, like someone has spooned out all the organs I need to function and I’m left with nothing, just emptiness, just complete and utter disbelief. Because this is impossible. Omega Point. Gone. Completely destroyed. “JULIETTE, GET DOWN—” FOURTEEN Warner tackles me to the ground just as the sound of gunshots fills the air. His arms are under me, cradling me to his chest, his body shielding mine from whatever imminent danger we’ve just gotten ourselves into. My heart is beating so loudly I can hardly hear Warner’s voice as he speaks into my ear. “Are you all right?” he whispers, pulling me tighter against him. I try to nod. “Stay down,” he says. “Don’t move.” I wasn’t planning on it, I don’t say to him. “STEP AWAY FROM HER, YOU WORTHLESS SACK OF SHIT—” My body goes stiff. That voice. I know that voice. I hear footsteps coming closer, crunching on the snow and ice and dirt. Warner loosens his hold around me, and I realize he’s reaching for his gun. “Kenji—no—,” I try to shout, my voice muffled by the snow. “GET UP!” Kenji bellows, still moving closer. “Stand up, coward!” I’ve officially begun to panic. Warner’s lips brush against my ear. “I’ll be right back.” Just as I turn to protest, Warner’s weight is lifted. His body gone. He’s completely disappeared. I scramble to my feet, spinning around. My eyes land on Kenji. He’s stopped in place, confused and scanning the area, and I’m so happy to see him that I can’t be bothered to care about Warner right now. I’m almost ready to cry. I squeak out Kenji’s name. His eyes lock on to mine. He charges forward, closing the gap between us and tackling me in a hug so fierce he practically cuts off my circulation. “Holy shit it’s good to see you,” he says, breathless, squeezing me tighter. I cling to him, so relieved, so stunned. I press my eyes shut, unable to stop the tears. Kenji pulls back to look me in the eye, his face bright with pain and joy. “What the hell are you doing out here? I thought you were dead—” “I thought you were dead!” He stops then. The smile vanishes from his face. “Where the hell did Warner go?” he says, eyes taking in our surroundings. “You were with him, right? I’m not losing my mind, am I?” “Yes—listen—Warner brought me here,” I tell him, trying to speak calmly, hoping to cool the anger in his eyes. “But he’s not trying to fight. When he told me about what happened to Omega Point, I didn’t believe him, so I asked him to show me proof—” “Is that right?” Kenji says, eyes flashing with a kind of hatred I’ve never seen in him before. “He came to show off what they did? To show you how many people he MURDERED!” Kenji breaks away from me, shaking with fury. “Did he tell you how many children were in there? Did he tell you how many of our men and women were slaughtered because of him?” He stops, heaving. “Did he tell you that?” he asks again, screaming into the air. “COME BACK OUT HERE, YOU SICK BASTARD!” “Kenji, no—” But Kenji’s already gone, darting away so quickly he’s just a speck in the distance now. I know he’s searching the vast space for glimpses of Warner and I need to do something, I need to stop him but I don’t know how— “Don’t move.” Warner’s whispers are at my ear, his hands planted firmly on my shoulders. I try to spin around and he holds me in place. “I said don’t move.” “What are you d—” “Shhhh,” he says. “No one can see me.” “What?” I crane my neck to try and glance behind me, but my head knocks against Warner’s chin. His invisible chin. “No,” I hear myself gasp. “But you’re not touching him—” “Look straight ahead,” he whispers. “It won’t do us any good for you to be caught talking to invisible people.” I turn my face forward. Kenji is no longer in sight. “How?” I ask Warner. “How did you—” Warner shrugs behind me. “I’ve felt different since we did that experiment with your power. Now that I know exactly what it’s like to take hold of another ability, I’m more easily able to recognize it. Like right now,” he says. “I feel as though I could quite literally reach forward and take hold of your energy. It was just as simple with Kenji,” he says. “He was standing right there. My survival instincts took over.” And even though this is a terrible moment to dwell on these things, I can’t help but allow myself to panic. That Warner can so easily project his powers. With no training. No practice. He can tap into my abilities and use them as he pleases. This can’t possibly be good. Warner’s hands squeeze my shoulders. “What are you doing?” I whisper. “I’m trying to see if I can pass the power on to you—if I can retransfer it and make us both invisible—but it seems I’m unable. Once I’ve taken the energy from someone else, I can use it, but I can’t seem to share it. After I release the energy, it can only be returned to the owner.” “How do you know so much already?” I ask, astonished. “You just learned about this a few days ago.” “I’ve been practicing,” he says. “But how? With who?” I pause. “Oh.” “Yes,” he says. “It’s been rather incredible having you stay with me. For so many reasons.” His hands fall from my shoulders. “I was worried I might be able to hurt you with your own power. I wasn’t sure I could absorb it without accidentally using it against you. But we seem to cancel each other out,” he says. “Once I take it from you, I can only ever give it back.” I’m not breathing. “Let’s go,” Warner says. “Kenji is moving out of range and I won’t be able to hold on to his energy for much longer. We have to get out of here.” “I can’t leave,” I tell him. “I can’t just abandon Kenji, not like this—” “He’s going to try and kill me, love. And while I know I’ve proved otherwise in your case, I can assure you I’m generally incapable of standing by as someone makes an attempt on my life. So unless you want to watch me shoot him first, I suggest we get out of here as soon as possible. I can feel him circling back.” “No. You can go. You should go. But I’m going to stay here.” Warner stills behind me. “What?” “Go,” I tell him. “You have to go to the compounds—you have things to take care of. You should go. But I need to be here. I have to know what’s happened to everyone else, and I have to move forward from there.” “You’re asking me to leave you here,” he says, not bothering to hide his shock. “Indefinitely.” “Yes,” I say to him. “I’m not leaving until I get some answers. And you’re right. Kenji will definitely shoot first and ask questions later, so it’s best that you leave. I’ll talk to him, try to tell him what’s happened. Maybe we could all work together—” “What?” “It doesn’t just have to be me and you,” I tell him. “You said you wanted to help me kill your father and take down The Reestablishment, right?” Warner nods slowly against the back of my head. “Okay. So.” I take a deep breath. “I accept your offer.” Warner goes rigid. “You accept my offer.” “Yes.” “Do you understand what you’re saying?” “I wouldn’t say it if I didn’t mean it. I’m not sure I’ll be able to do this without you.” I feel the breath rush out of him, his heart beating hard against my back. “But I need to know who else is still alive,” I insist. “And the group of us can work together. We’ll be stronger that way, and we’ll all be fighting toward the same goal—” “No.” “It’s the only way—” “I have to go,” he says, spinning me around. “Kenji is almost here.” He shoves a hard plastic object into my hand. “Activate this pager,” he says, “whenever you’re ready. Keep it with you and I’ll know where to find you.” “But—” “You have four hours,” he says. “If I don’t hear from you before then, I’ll assume you are in some kind of danger, and I will come find you myself.” He’s still holding my hand, the pager still pressed against my palm. It’s the craziest feeling, to be touched by someone you can’t see. “Do you understand?” I nod, once. I have no idea where to look. And then I freeze, every inch of me hot and cold all at once because he presses his lips to the back of my fingers in one soft, tender moment and when he pulls away I’m reeling, heady, unsteady. Just as I’m regaining my footing, I hear the familiar sound of an electric thrum, and realize Warner has already begun to drive away. And I’m left to wonder what on earth I’ve just agreed to. FIFTEEN Kenji is stomping toward me, his eyes blazing. “Where the hell did he go? Did you see where he went?” I shake my head as I reach forward, grabbing his arms in an attempt to focus his eyes. “Talk to me, Kenji. Tell me what happened—where is everyone—?” “There is no everyone!” he snaps, breaking away. “Omega Point is gone—everything gone—everything—” He drops to his knees, heaving as he falls forward, his forehead digging into the snow. “I thought you were dead, too—I thought—” “No,” I gasp. “No, Kenji—they can’t all have died—not everyone—” Not Adam. Not Adam. Please please please not Adam I’d been too optimistic about today. I’d been lying to myself. I didn’t really believe Warner. I didn’t believe it could be this bad. But now, to see the truth, and to hear Kenji’s agony—the reality of all that happened is hitting me so hard I feel like I’m falling backward into my own grave. My knees have hit the ground. “Please,” I’m saying, “please tell me there are others—Adam has to be alive—” “I grew up here,” Kenji is saying. He’s not listening to me and I don’t recognize his raw, aching voice. I want the old Kenji, the one who knew how to take charge, to take control. And this isn’t him. This Kenji is terrifying me. “This was my whole life,” he says, looking toward the crater that used to be Omega Point. “The only place—all those people—” He chokes. “They were my family. My only family—” “Kenji, please . . .” I try to shake him. I need him to snap out of his grief before I succumb to it, too. We need to move out of plain sight and I’m only now beginning to realize that Kenji doesn’t care. He wants to put himself in danger. He wants to fight. He wants to die. I can’t let that happen. Someone needs to take control of this situation right now and right now I might be the only one capable. “Get up,” I snap, my voice harsher than I intended. “You need to get up, and you need to stop acting reckless. You know we’re not safe out here, and we have to move. Where are you staying?” I grab his arm and pull, but he won’t budge. “Get up!” I shout again. “Get—” And then, just like that, I remember I’m a whole hell of a lot stronger than Kenji will ever be. It almost makes me smile. I close my eyes and focus, trying to remember everything Kenji taught me, everything I’ve learned about how to control my strength, how to tap into it when I need to. I spent so many years bottling everything up and locking it away that it still takes some time to remember it’s there, waiting for me to harness it. But the moment I welcome it, I feel it rush into me. It’s a raw power so potent it makes me feel invincible. And then, just like that, I yank Kenji up off the ground and toss him over my shoulder. Me. I do that. Kenji, of course, unleashes a string of the foulest expletives I’ve ever heard. He’s kicking at me but I can hardly feel it; my arms are wrapped loosely around him, my strength carefully reined in so as not to crush him. He’s angry, but at least he’s swearing again. This is something I recognize. I cut him off midexpletive. “Tell me where you’re staying,” I say to him, “and pull yourself together. You can’t fall apart on me now.” Kenji is silent a moment. “Hey, um, I’m sorry to bother you, but I’m looking for a friend of mine,” he says. “Have you seen her? She’s a tiny little thing, cries a lot, spends too much time with her feelings—” “Shut up, Kenji.” “Oh wait!” he says. “It is you.” “Where are we going?” “When are you going to put me down?” he counters, no longer amused. “I mean, I’ve got an excellent view of your ass from here, but if you don’t mind me staring—” I drop him without thinking. “Goddammit, Juliette—what the hell—” “How’s the view from down there?” I stand over his splayed body, arms crossed over my chest. “I hate you.” “Get up, please.” “When did you learn to do that?” he grumbles, stumbling to his feet and rubbing his back. I roll my eyes. Squint into the distance. Nothing and no one in sight, so far. “I didn’t.” “Oh, right,” he says. “Because that makes sense. Because tossing a grown-ass man over your shoulders is just so freaking easy. That shit just comes naturally to you.”
0.948276	Considered by many as Dickens's masterpiece, it was originally called The Personal History, Adventures, Experience and Observation of David Copperfield the Younger of Blunderstone Rookery, it was first published as a serial in 1849–50, and as a book by Bradbury & Evans in 1850. Translations and adaptations Even as the serial version was being published, six dramatizations were done, the first being Born with a Caul by George Almar (1850). These were followed by twenty other versions in the 1850s, including a few by Dickens himself - inter alia versions prepared for his famous dramatic recitals from his work. Full-scale stage versions seen in South Africa include: David Copperfield by John Brougham (1851) Adapted as a drama in three acts John Brougham (1810-1880)[] and performed at the Lyceum Theatre, London, on 6 January 1851. Published in London by Dicks. Little Em'ly by Andrew Halliday (1869) Adapted for the stage as a drama in four acts and named after the key character Little Em'ly from the novel. Warmly approved of by Dickens himself, the play opened at the Olympic Theatre, London, on 9 October 1869 and went on to enjoy a long run at Drury Lane and throughout the colonies. Also found as Little Emily, or The Ark on the Sands. F.C.L. Bosman (1980), citing Disney's Roebuck's productions in 1875, has the latter title listed as Little Emily, or The Ark on the Lands [sic]. Performance history in South Africa 1875: Halliday's version was first performed as Little Emily, or The Ark on the Lands in the Bijou Theatre, Cape Town, by Disney Roebuck's company on 28 and 30 August. 1875: Performed as Little Emily, or The Ark on the Lands in the Bijou Theatre, Cape Town, by Disney Roebuck's company on 1 September, with Whitebait at Greenwich (Morton). 1875: Performed as Little Emily, or The Ark on the Lands in the Bijou Theatre, Cape Town, by Disney Roebuck's company on 1 September, with The Morning Call (). The evening a benefit for Sutton Vane. 1877: Halliday's version was performed as Little Emily, or The Ark on the Sands in the Theatre Royal, Cape Town, by Disney Roebuck's company on 6 and 9 October, with The Happy Pair (Lover). Sources https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Copperfield https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Dickens "Charles Dickens Theatre Collection", Library Catalogue of the University of Kent[2] "David Halliday", The Online Book Page[3] D.C. Boonzaier, 1923. "My playgoing days – 30 years in the history of the Cape Town stage", in SA Review, 9 March and 24 August 1932. (Reprinted in Bosman 1980: pp. 374-439.) F.C.L. Bosman. 1980. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1912. Pretoria: J.L. van Schaik: pp.361,
0.961606	Walmart drone delivery service may deliver your orders by air in near future, company announces November 30, 2021 NYPD Hate Crimes Task Force launches investigation into Asian woman attacked with large rock November 30, 2021 The CDC released data showing that during the pandemic, 100,000 Americans died from a drug overdose. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released the data regarding drug overdose deaths that occured during 12 months of the pandemic. It estimated that there were 100,306 deaths from overdose between April 2020 and April 2021. This is a record number of deaths caused by overdose in the US. The previous year, there were 78,056 overdose deaths, meaning there was a 28.5% increase from one year to the next. Deaths coming from opioid overdose made up the majority of overdose deaths, clocking in at 75,673, compared to the previous year’s 56,064. The number of deaths coming from cocaine, synthetic opioids, like fentanyl, psychostimulants, like methamphetamine, and natural and synthetic opioids, like pain medication, also increased. President Joe Biden responded to the news in a statement, calling it a “tragic milestone” and an “epidemic of loss”. He said his administration would be doing everything in its power to address addiction. Four million dollars from the American Rescue Plan will be going towards “strengthen[ing] and expand[ing] services for substance use disorder and mental health.” He said they were aiming to make care more accessible for Americans, as well. In closing, he said, “To all those families who have mourned a loved one and to all those people who are facing addiction or are in recovery: you are in our hearts, and you are not alone.” “No one should die from an overdose, and naloxone is one of the most effective tools we have to save lives,” remarked Dr. Rahul Gupta, director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy. “This is unacceptable and it requires an unprecedented response.” Katherine Keyes, a Columbia University expert on drug abuse issues spoke on the data, saying the number is “devastating,” and that “It’s a magnitude of overdose death that we haven’t seen in this country.” Dr. Joshua Sharfstein, director of the American Health Initiative at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, said, “This is a momentous tragedy hidden by the pandemic. It’s heartbreaking how many families have been affected by an overdose this year.” ARTICLE: RITA VOGT MANAGING EDITOR: CARSON CHOATE PHOTO CREDITS: ZERO HEDGE The following two tabs change content below. Bio Latest Posts Rita Vogt Latest posts by Rita Vogt (see all) GOP governor says McCarthy should condemn Boebert’s ‘anti-muslim’ remarks - November 30, 2021 Officer in Maryland fatally shoots man with knife, finds dead woman in man’s home - November 30, 2021 Carrie Meek, pioneering Black former congresswoman, dies at 95 - November 30, 2021 Share this: Twitter Facebook Like this: Like Loading... Rita Vogt Leave a Reply Cancel reply Most Viewed VIDEO: Trump supporters raid Senate chamber, Nancy Pelosi’s office 19500 views VAERS database records more deaths following vaccine than Covid deaths for the second consecutive week 17148 views 6th circuit court declares Biden administration’s ‘American Rescue Plan’ unconstitutional 16689 views COVID-19 outbreak hits Carnival cruise despite every guest and staff member being vaccinated 15808 views BREAKING: New York air traffic controllers receive threat of plane intending to fly into US capitol 12862 views Most Popular VIDEO: Trump supporters raid Senate chamber, Nancy Pelosi’s office 6 comments BREAKING: New York air traffic controllers receive threat of plane intending to fly into US capitol 2 comments Convicted murderer becomes first incarcerated person to win elected office 2 comments Everything you need to know about Trump’s second impeachment 1 comments BREAKDOWN: All the details from the breaching of the capitol building 1 comments Recent GOP governor says McCarthy should condemn Boebert’s ‘anti-muslim’ remarks November 30, 2021 Carrie Meek, pioneering Black former congresswoman, dies at 95 November 30, 2021 Follow Us Twitter Instagram Facebook Navigation Home Politics US News World News Science & Health Entertainment Subscribe to the Daily Fact-Based Newsletter Enter your email address to receive all the daily news, Monday-Friday, straight to your inbox. 100% free, unsubscribe anytime.
0.997226	Biryani, a rice dish flavoured with meat, vegetables and spices has many variations, depending on regional preferences. This variation, which uses tender jackfruit, a vegan substitute that resembles meat, is native to the state of Maharashtra. While this is definitely not recommended for regular consumption as a healthy low calorie dish, you can indulge in it occasionally when you crave for this sinfully rich delicacy. Don your apron, get your family and friends to pitch in, and immerse yourself in creating this dish fit for royalty, on this weekend. Cooking biryani is easier said than done. Why would you spend an hour in the kitchen cooking biryani, when you can get it delivered piping hot to your home? Spice up your Sunday morning by cooking the perfect biryani for lunch Well, as with many other things, the very process of making a biryani can be a delight to your senses. The blending together of cooked basmati rice, spices, saffron and herbs can make it one of the most relaxing experiences. Enlist the help of your partner, family members or friends and you will enjoy the process even more. Weekends are fun times when my family looks forward to bonding over special meals. While we occasionally dine out, I also cook a variety of elaborate dishes for them. This way, they enjoy healthy and delicious food at home, made from the freshest and choicest of ingredients. It is alarming to note that with rising consumerism and disposable incomes, the younger generation has taken to eating out like a duck to water. They have access to food anytime, at any place, and this has led to a rise in obesity and other health disorders at a very young age. Eating out should be a ‘few and far-between’ indulgence to maintain good health and vitality Eating out at restaurants or ordering food online regularly can jeopardize your health in a significant way, mostly because you never know what has gone into making the dish: · Commercially prepared food in restaurants is partially cooked in large batches and refrigerated, leading to nutrient loss. · In most cases, they cook food with oil that has been repeatedly used for deep frying. Consuming this oil leads to an increase in free radicals in the body, causing inflammation and thickening of the arteries. · There is a risk of food poisoning, infections and allergic reactions to certain foods. · To make food attractive, they use thickening agents such as highly processed flours, high quantity of sugar and salt, artificial flavouring, preservatives and colour. They also use unhealthy and cheap substitutes for certain expensive ingredients. While awareness is setting in the restaurant business, you need to ensure the restaurant is safe and hygienic with acceptable standards in freshness and quality. However, weaning away from excessive eating at restaurants is an important change that you can make to enhance your health. Home cooked food always works better because it is cooked: With fresh and the choicest of ingredients Under hygienic conditions With less oil and devoid of unhealthy additives that contain preservatives and colours In gravy made from healthy substances such as herbs onion, tomato, cashew nuts, curd, milk, cheese, chickpea flour and others And served piping hot, fresh off the stove Embrace good health by eating home-cooked food Listed below are a few things that you need to keep in mind before you take up this project: Ensure you have time at your disposal. Choose a weekend for this relaxed project. Enlist help from family or friends so that you don’t feel overwhelmed, though I can assure you that it is a relatively easy dish to prepare. Put all the ingredients together before hand. Delegate the task of buying fresh ingredients such as herbs to enjoy their aroma and flavour. Making biryani is as much about the delight to the senses as it is a dish to be savoured. Get the chopping done by someone who is skilled in it and can provide the desired output safely. With this Biryani recipe, I hope to introduce you to the joy of cooking an elaborate one-dish meal that you can prepare leisurely with your family and friends. You will enjoy cooking it up as much as you will, digging into its sumptuousness. TENDER JACKFRUIT BIRYANI Choose a tender jackfruit that is slightly bumpy, indicating good seed formation and texture Biryanis are predominantly made with rice, meat, dry fruits, spices, herbs and saffron. This recipe is an interesting variation with tender jackfruit, which is considered an excellent vegan substitute for meat due to its similarity in texture and to some extent, in the taste. Pick a jackfruit that is not too tender, somewhere less than half its mature size. The seeds are dense in nutrients and taste great as well. So look out for slight bumps that are indicative of seed formation. Health benefits Higher in Vitamins A, B and C than apples, apricots, bananas and avocados, it is one of the rare fruits with a generous quantity of Vitamin B. It also supplies folate, niacin, riboflavin, calcium, potassium and magnesium that are precursors for growth and peak functioning of our body. Antioxidants such as carotenoids that are present in the pulp and more so in the seeds, provide protection from inflammation and cell damage. Tender jackfruit is rich in fibre and low in carbohydrates as compared to its ripened fruit. It keeps you fuller and so you can go longer without eating, which is why it is an excellent choice for helping you control your blood sugar. If you are following intermittent fasting for weight loss, tender jackfruit is the right vegetable for you. Tender jackfruit is an excellent vegan substitute for meat Apart from these, it also aids in digestion by eliminating constipation due to its high fibre content. Its phytochemicals help in preventing ulcers in the stomach as well as are believed to prevent cancer cells from developing. Minerals such as potassium and calcium lower high blood pressure, protect you from heart disease and stroke, besides preventing bone loss. Since jackfruit is seasonal and the tender one is available in summer, you need to try out this recipe now. But during off-season, you can just replace tender jackfruit with meat and boiled eggs or vegetarian variations such as mushrooms, cottage cheese (paneer), soya nuggets, kidney beans or mixed vegetables. Ingredients: (Serves 4) Tender jackfruit, boiled and diced 3 cups Rice 3 cups Onions 6, medium-sized Ginger-garlic paste 2 tsp Tomatoes 4, medium-sized Fresh curd or yoghurt 1 cup Milk 2 cups Cinammon 2 sticks Cloves 5 Cardamom 4 Pepper corns 10 Cumin 1 tsp Coriander powder 1 tsp Chilli powder 1 tsp or to taste Turmeric powder ½ tsp Chicken Masala powder ½ tsp Bay leaf 3 Saffron strands A pinch Cashew nuts ½ cup Salt To taste Cooking oil / Ghee ½ cup Fresh mint leaves ½ cup Coriander leaves ½ cup Water for cooking rice and jackfruit 5 +2 cups, respectively Method of Preparation: Biryani is an elaborate preparation, and can be prepared in various ways, but this is an easy-breezy version that uses the pressure cooker. Simply put, the preparation boils down to these three steps: 1. Cooking the rice and spices 2. Making the jackfruit gravy 3. Assembling them together and cooking on low heat Cooking the rice and spices The subtle blend of aromas of the flaky rice and spices can rouse your appetite Wash the rice until the starch disappears and the water becomes transparent. Drain fully and keep aside for 15 minutes. Boil 5 cups of water and add the rice, salt and whole spices. Add 2 tsp of ghee for getting a flaky, non-sticky texture to the rice. Pressure cook it for two whistles and switch off the gas. Allow to cool. Slice 3 onions thinly and deep fry them in oil on a slow flame until they turn crispy and golden brown. Drain and spread on absorbent paper. This is optional. If you wish to do away with fried foods, then you can skip this step and use the onions to prepare the jackfruit gravy. Preparing the garnishing Soak the saffron strands in ½ cup of hot milk and keep aside. Prepare mint and coriander leaves for garnishing. Cooking the tender jackfruit Peel, cut into chunks and steam in pressure cooker Peel and cut the tender jackfruit into 2-inch chunks. This is tedious as the skin is thick and hard. The sap in the middle axis is milky and viscous and sticks to your hand. Use a pair of disposable gloves or smear some cooking oil on your hands and knife to make it easier to handle the jackfruit. Later, you can rub more oil to clean up the viscous sap from your hands, before rinsing off with soap and water. Ensure that you spread some paper towels on the cutting board and do not mess up your clothes and work surface. Alternatively, to save on this effort, you can just request your vegetable vendor to cut it for you. Rinse the pieces and quickly place them in 2 cups of water in a pressure cooker and cook them until tender. Once they are cooked, you can handle them easily. Dice into bite sized pieces and keep aside. Making the jackfruit gravy Spice it up with powdered condiments Cook the curd on low heat to make a rich tangy gravy Add the steamed jackfruit pieces Add milk to prepare a thick gravy Heat oil/ghee in a pan or wok. Add bay leaves followed by cumin seeds and finely chopped onions. Saute till onions start browning. Add ginger garlic paste and fry for a minute. Add chopped tomatoes and fry till they are soft and mushy. Add the chilli powder, turmeric, chicken masala coriander powder and cashew nuts. Cook for a minute and add the beaten curd/yoghurt. Cook until it starts simmering. Add salt to taste that is just sufficient for the gravy. (The rice has already been cooked with salt.) Add the diced jackfruit pieces and peas, and cook on a low flame so that the flavours blend together. Add 1½ cup milk to the gravy and simmer on low heat. The gravy will thicken a little. Switch off the gas as the gravy is ready for assembling the biryani. Assembling the gravy and rice in layers Finally, all you need to do is assemble the gravy and rice in layers half an hour before serving. Remove the cooked rice from the pressure cooker gently, without breaking the flaky grains. Spread 1/3 the rice in a layer. Pour a few spoonfuls of saffron and milk. Spread half of the jackfruit gravy over the rice. Garnish with mint and coriander leaves and fried onions. Spread the second portion of rice and repeat with saffron milk followed with remaining jackfruit gravy. Garnish with mint, coriander leaves and browned onions. Top it off with the remaining rice. Pour the remaining saffron milk all over and garnish with mint, coriander and browned onions. Seal it with the pressure cooker lid and simmer on very low heat until the lid feels hot to the touch. Switch off the gas and allow to sit for 10 more minutes before serving the richly aromatic and delicious biryani. Handy tips: If this is too much effort for you, make sure you rope in your family or friends and cook it up together. You will have a blast making and eating the biryani with them. To make the process more smooth-sailing, time yourself in such a way that you begin with deep frying the onions and cooking the rice. Once you get these going, peel and cut the jackfruit and steam it in a pressure cooker. Get the other ingredients together and chop the vegetables for the gravy and prepare the gravy. Then assemble it and simmer on low heat. To make the biryani healthier, skip the deep fried onions and use a lesser quantity of oil/ghee. You can also substitute white long-grained rice with brown or unpolished basmati rice. Enjoy the biryani with a curd-based raita made with tomato, onions and cucumber. If you like this recipe, please try it out and leave a comment on how it turned out. Share this recipe with your friends so that they benefit from this healthy vegetable. Until my next, eat your way to good health! Like this: Like Loading... Published by Anupama Patil Blogger, orchid hobbyist and cooking enthusiast living in Mumbai, India. Growing orchids and cooking have been my overarching passions and now I have successfully taken them to the next level through my blogs on both these niches. Growing orchids has been an immensely satisfying hobby. Their culture and care have kept me happy, positive and stress-free. Through my blog, I wish to share my learning and experience with like-minded hobbyists. I believe healthy food can be delicious, and enjoy cooking for my family. A passion that has grown over the years, it has led me to learn about health and nutrition as well as understand the nuances of cooking food that is healthy and delicious. I began my writing career by working as a columnist and writer for Tarla Dalal's magazine, Cooking & More, in which I wrote features on food and nutrition. I later published similar articles in the Times of India. Through my blog, Foodismymedicin, I now wish to share my knowledge and skills with healthy food enthusiasts. View all posts by Anupama Patil Post navigation Previous Post Have your ice-cream and eat it too Next Post Spice up your meals with pickled amla 10 Comments Add yours Amita Sarin says: April 1, 2021 at 6:44 pm Great Recipe and valuable insights. Thankyou Anupama LikeLiked by 1 person Reply Anupama Patil says: April 1, 2021 at 7:42 pm Thank you Amita. LikeLike Reply Raji says: April 2, 2021 at 3:54 pm Anup u have written it so nicely , hats off to Ur patience. I will surely try. Jackfruit is my fav. LikeLike Reply Anupama Patil says: April 2, 2021 at 3:58 pm Thank you Raji. Try it out and let me know how it turned out. LikeLike Reply Smita Mahajan says: April 2, 2021 at 5:15 pm Anu, you have written very well. Jack fruit has so many medicinal values. Definately l will cook Jack fruit biryani. LikeLiked by 1 person Reply Anupama Patil says: April 2, 2021 at 5:25 pm Thank you Smita. Let me know how it turns out. LikeLike Reply Niranjan says: April 2, 2021 at 6:10 pm Great Recipe & very healthy too – will definitely try it out LikeLike Reply Anupama Patil says: April 2, 2021 at 6:12 pm Thank you. Please let me know how it turns out. LikeLike Reply Uma says: April 3, 2021 at 12:33 am Well written Anup. Your passion for cooking comes through in every word you write. LikeLike Reply Anupama Patil says: April 3, 2021 at 12:34 am Thank you Uma. Please try the recipe. You will like it. LikeLike Reply Leave a Reply Cancel reply Enter your comment here... Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: Email (required) (Address never made public) Name (required) Website You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. ( Log Out / Change ) You are commenting using your Google account. ( Log Out / Change ) You are commenting using your Twitter account. 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0.99996	Covid in Scotland: Vaccine passports to be introduced for nightclubs and live events, says Nicola Sturgeon First Minister says ‘Covid certificates’ showing proof of a double jab will be introduced later this month, if MSPs agree next week From Friday, people will be able to download a QR code showing their vaccination status, which they can keep on their phone (Photo: AFP) By Chris Green Scotland Editor September 1, 2021 3:48 pm(Updated 3:49 pm) People in Scotland who want to get into nightclubs and big events will soon have to show proof that they have been double-vaccinated against Covid, under plans announced by Nicola Sturgeon. The First Minister said a system of “vaccine certification” would be introduced later this month, if the plan is approved by MSPs at the Scottish Parliament next week. It means that adults in Scotland will need to show proof of double vaccination to attend nightclubs, adult entertainment venues and any of the following events: Sign up to get Paul Waugh's daily politics email, with exclusive analysis every weekday evening Email address is invalid Thank you for subscribing! Sorry, there was a problem. Indoor standing live events with more than 500 people in the audience Outdoor standing events with more than 4,000 people in the audience Any event with more than 10,000 people in attendance. In a statement at Holyrood, Ms Sturgeon said she was “hopeful” that Covid cases in Scotland would start to fall without the need for restrictions to be reimposed. Read More Covid in Scotland: Nicola Sturgeon tests negative after week of record cases But she said the “limited use” of vaccine certification could help to control the spread of the virus as autumn and then winter arrive. Proof of vaccination would not be needed for people going to pubs, restaurants and cafés, she added, but this would be kept “under review” and may change. Children and people who have particular medical conditions that prevent them from getting vaccinated will be exempt from the plan. From Friday, people will be able to download a QR code showing their vaccination status, which they can keep on their phone. “The introduction of Covid certificates – even in the fairly limited circumstances that I have set out above – is a significant move, and not one we would ever take lightly,” Ms Sturgeon told MSPs. “That is why I believe it should have parliamentary approval in advance. “But it is worth stressing that although we have had to weigh this decision carefully, we would be in no way unique in taking this step. The UK Government has announced its intention to introduce certification for England. “And several European countries, including France, Italy and Ireland, have already introduced certification. In fact, the certification rules in several of those countries cover a far wider range of venues than the ones we are currently planning for Scotland.”
0.997084	"Big Eyes" is an Academy Award and Golden Globe Awards nominated song by Lana Del Rey featured on the soundtrack of the movie Big Eyes. It was co-written with Dan Heath who also served as the track's producer. The song was kept a secret until the film was screened for insiders in early November 2014. Contents 1 Background 2 Release 3 In Big Eyes 4 Critical reception 4.1 Accolades 5 Cross-references 6 Official versions 7 Lyrics 8 Media 9 Credits 10 References Background According to one of the film's producers and co-writers, Larry Karaszewski, "Tim [Burton] showed [Lana Del Rey] the film and she fell in love with it. Women, in particular, seem to get the movie, and Lana really got the movie. The whole thing is about a woman who can't find her voice [and when the song first plays in the movie] it almost becomes a musical. Lana's song expresses what Margaret is feeling so perfectly, it's like a soliloquy of her inner thoughts." According to producer, Dan Heath, the song's hook came to Del Rey upon seeing the film for the first time. Then he recorded it on a little voice memo and built the music underneath what she had sung. According to him, they wanted to give the song a "cinematic and lush feel" as well as describing their intentions with the song as "magical, not too heavy but not too light, and quite moving". When talking in-depth about the song's portrayal of Margaret Keane's feelings in the film, he stated the song was "a nice mix between somber, sad and introspectiveness, into a big sort of triumphant, half-angry chorus." Heath recalls they went through a few different versions of the song before presenting it to Tim Burton, who loved the track [9]. This suggests that there is more than one version of the song, they currently remain unreleased. A demo version containing additional vocals and minor production differences leaked January 24, 2021. The song was not originally meant to be played during the film but rather during the credits, however, the song was deemed too sad to end the film with and producers noticed it fit perfectly over two near dialogue-free scenes, which originally contained music by scorer Danny Elfman. Karaszewski later said the track was "a centerpiece number" in the film. Because the track was no longer being used in the credits, Del Rey worked with Rick Nowels to write another song, "I Can Fly" for the outro of the film. Release On December 1, 2014, a 1-minute snippet of the track was released to Yahoo! Movies with an accompanying lyric video featuring scenes from the film. The track was leaked from the official Weinstein Company website on December 3, 2014, with "I Can Fly". The track's official audio was released on Del Rey's Vevo YouTube channel with "I Can Fly" on December 19, 2014.[1] In early 2020, "Big Eyes" and "I Can Fly" had been removed from Apple Music and Spotify in several countries, however the reason for this removal is unclear. In Big Eyes The Hollywood Reporter describes the song's use in the film by saying "The number begins as an instrumental when [Amy] Adams spots her paintings being sold in a supermarket, then turns to a vocal piece with a big, pronounced beat as the character returns home determined to develop a new style of painting; it slips back out of the vocals as Christoph Waltz’s character returns and confronts his artistically straying spouse."[2] Critical reception Billboard's Chris Payne wrote that Del Rey's "vocal theatrics and some harrowingly haunting string-laden production draw us in".[3] Esther Zuckerman of Entertainment Weekly said the title track "delivers on its Del Rey-ian promise with a dramatic, retro flair".[4] Accolades "Big Eyes" was shortlisted for the Academy Award for Best Original Song on December 13, 2014, with final nominees, announced on January 15, 2015,[5] failing to earn a nomination.[6] On December 11, 2014, the song was nominated for Best Original Song at the 72nd Golden Globe Awards.[7] On December 15, 2014, it received a nomination for Best Song at the 20th Critics' Choice Awards, which took place on January 15, 2015.[8] Cross-references Big, or wide, eyes are also referenced in "Cola" and "I Can Fly". "Creeping around" is also mentioned in "Sad Girl". Hot weather during the summer is also referenced on "Shades of Cool", "Heroin", "Salvatore" and "Young and Beautiful". Official versions Released version — 4:43 Demo version — 4:41 Lyrics With your big eyes And your big lies With your big eyes And your big lies I saw you creepin' 'round the garden What are you hiding? I beg your pardon Don't tell me nothin' I used to think that I could trust you I was your woman You were my knight and Shining companion To my surprise My love's demise Was his own greed And lullabies With your big eyes And your big lies With your big eyes And your big lies I noticed you got hot in summer You had no comfort Your shirt was cotton Your face was sun burnt You paced around like you'd been waiting Waiting for something Your world was burning And I stood watching As I looked down The flames grew high You watched me frown I said goodbye With your big eyes And your big lies With your big eyes And your big lies Is it me, was I wrong to have trusted you? Did I see what I wanted, what wasn't true? Was I wrong to go on like a little fool? It's amazing what women in love will do With your big eyes And your big lies With your big eyes And your big lies Media Credits Personnel Lana Del Rey — songwriting, vocals Dan Heath — songwriting, production Robert Orton — mixing Hungarian Studio Orchestra — orchestra Balazs Bujtor — concertmaster Peter Illenyi — conductor Sandor M. Jozsa — orchestra contractor Gergely Kiss — manager Tamas Kurina — engineering Reuben Cohen — mastering References ↑ LanaDelReyVEVO (December 19, 2014). Lana Del Rey - Big Eyes (Official Audio). YouTube. [Retrieved: February 24, 2016] ↑ Willman, Chris (November 18, 2014). 'Big Eyes': The Story Behind Lana Del Rey's Stunning Secret Songs. The Hollywood Reporter. [Retrieved: November 19, 2014] ↑ Payne, Chris (December 3, 2014). Lana Del Rey Shares 'Big Eyes' & 'I Can Fly' From New Tim Burton Film. Billboard. [Accessed: February 24, 2016] ↑ Zuckerman, Esther (December 1, 2014). Listen to Lana Del Rey's title song for 'Big Eyes'. Entertainment Weekly. [Accessed: February 26, 2018] ↑ Kay, Jeremy (December 12, 2014). Academy selects 79 eligible songs. Screen Daily. [Access date: February 22, 2016] ↑ Vincent, Alice (February 22, 2015). Oscars 2015: nominations in full. The Telegraph. [Access date: February 24, 2016] ↑ Moraski, Lauren (December 11, 2014). Golden Globes 2015 nominations announced. CBS News. [Access date: February 24, 2016] ↑ Morales, Wilson (December 15, 2014). Selma, Top Five Among 20th Annual Critics’ Choice Movie Awards Nominees. Blackfilm. [Access date: February 24, 2016]
0.998627	Karl Heinrich Marx (German: [maʁks]; 5 May 1818 – 14 March 1883) was a German philosopher, economist, historian, sociologist, political theorist, journalist and socialist revolutionary. Born in Trier, Germany, Marx studied law and philosophy at university. He married Jenny von Westphalen in 1843. Due to his political publications, Marx became stateless and lived in exile with his wife and children in London for decades, where he continued to develop his thought in collaboration with German thinker Friedrich Engels and publish his writings, researching in the British Museum Reading Room. His best-known titles are the 1848 pamphlet The Communist Manifesto and the three-volume Das Kapital (1867–1883). Marx's political and philosophical thought had enormous influence on subsequent intellectual, economic and political history. His name has been used as an adjective, a noun, and a school of social theory. Marx's critical theories about society, economics, and politics, collectively understood as Marxism, hold that human societies develop through class conflict. In the capitalist mode of production, this manifests itself in the conflict between the ruling classes (known as the bourgeoisie) that control the means of production and the working classes (known as the proletariat) that enable these means by selling their labour-power in return for wages. Employing a critical approach known as historical materialism, Marx predicted that capitalism produced internal tensions like previous socioeconomic systems and that those would lead to its self-destruction and replacement by a new system known as the socialist mode of production. For Marx, class antagonisms under capitalism—owing in part to its instability and crisis-prone nature—would eventuate the working class's development of class consciousness, leading to their conquest of political power and eventually the establishment of a classless, communist society constituted by a free association of producers. Marx actively pressed for its implementation, arguing that the working class should carry out organised proletarian revolutionary action to topple capitalism and bring about socio-economic emancipation. Marx has been described as one of the most influential figures in human history, and his work has been both lauded and criticised. His work in economics laid the basis for some current theories about labour and its relation to capital. Many intellectuals, labour unions, artists, and political parties worldwide have been influenced by Marx's work, with many modifying or adapting his ideas. Marx is typically cited as one of the principal architects of modern social science. DbPedia Wikidata Wikipedia Family tree father? mother? Karl Marx (1818-1883) Eleanor Marx Jenny Marx Commemorated on 4 plaques tiles list diane10981 on Flickr London, United Kingdom Frank Batt on Flickr Ramsgate, United Kingdom Megalit on Wikimedia Commons London, United Kingdom Eltelf on Wikimedia Commons Ventnor, Isle of Wight, United Kingdom Karl Marx 1818-1883 lived here 1851-56 28 Dean Street W1, London, United Kingdom where they lived (1851-1856) Karl Marx 1818-1883 communist revolutionary stayed here in 1879 56 Plains of Waterloo, Ramsgate, United Kingdom where they stayed (1879) Karl Marx 1818-1883 philosopher lived and died in a house on this site 1875-1883 101–108 Maitland Park Road, Hampstead, NW3, London, United Kingdom where they lived (1875-1883) and died (1883) Karl Marx Socialist Philosopher Lived Here During the Winters of 1881-2 and 1882-3 1 St Boniface Gardens PO38 1PW, Ventnor, Isle of Wight, United Kingdom where they lived Open Plaques 2009-2021 Available as Open Data in .geojson, .json, and .csv format. Please consider using the datadump before crawling (and killing) our server.
0.998623	With colonialism, which began in South Africa in 1652, came the Slavery and Forced Labour Model. This was the original model of colonialism brought by the Dutch in 1652, and subsequently exported from the Western Cape to the Afrikaner Republics of the Orange Free State and the Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek. Many South Africans are the descendents of slaves brought to the Cape Colony from 1653 until 1822. The changes wrought on African societies by the imposition of European colonial rule occurred in quick succession. In fact, it was the speed with which change occurred that set the colonial era apart from earlier periods in South Africa. Of course, not all societies were equally transformed. Some resisted the forces of colonial intrusion, slavery and forced labour for extended periods. Others, however, such as the Khoikhoi communities of the south-western Cape, disintegrated within a matter of decades. Initially, a colonial contact was a two-way process. However, Africans were far from helpless victims in the initial encounter. Colonial contact was not simply a matter of Europeans imposing themselves upon African societies. For their part, African rulers saw many benefits to be had from maintaining relations with Europeans, and for a considerable period of time they engaged with Europeans voluntarily and on their own terms. Most importantly, trade with Europeans gave African rulers access to a crucial aspect of European technology, namely firearms. More than anything else, those who had ownership and control over firearms were able to gather around themselves larger and larger groups of people. In short, the ownership of firearms turned into a status symbol and a means to gain political power. Sadly, the article of trade in which Europeans showed the greatest interest, and which Africans were prepared to sacrifice, were slaves. The Atlantic slave trade stands at the centre of a long history of European contact with Africa. This was the era of the African Diaspora, an all embracing term historians have used to describe the consequences of the slave trade. Estimates of the number of slaves transported from their African homes to European colonial possession in the Americas range from 9 to 15 million people. Although a great deal of violence accompanied the trade in slaves, the sheer scale of operations involved a high degree of organisation, on the part of both Europeans and Africans. In other words, the Atlantic slave trade could not have taken place without the cooperation, or complicity, of many Africans. As the number of transported slaves increased, African societies could not avoid transformation, and 400 years of slave trading took their toll. Of course, not all African societies were equally affected, but countries such as Angola and Senegal suffered heavily. The most important consequences of the Atlantic slave trade were demographic, economic, and political. There can be no doubt that the Atlantic slave trade greatly retarded African demographic development, a fact that was to have lasting consequences for the history of the continent. At best, African populations remained stagnant. The export of the most economically active men and women led to the disintegration of entire societies. The trade in slaves also led to new political formations. In some cases, as people sought protection from the violence and warfare that went with the slave trade, large centralised states came into being. Slavery at the Cape Jan van Riebeeck, who founded the first colony at Cape Town in 1652, was an official of the Dutch East India Company. The Dutch marked their permanence by building a five-pointed stone castle on the shores of the bay, a structure that continues to dominate the city centre of Cape Town. From within the walls of the Castle, the VOC administered and governed the expanding colony. At first, the Dutch were primarily concerned with supplying their ships with fresh produce as they rounded the Cape en route to the spice-producing islands of the Indonesian archipelago. This is because the Dutch had their most important colonial interests in Indonesia, which included the growing of crops and spices that could not be produced in Europe. In Indonesia, the Dutch enslaved entire populations, ruling them by force and coercing them to produce crops. In the Cape, Van Riebeeck first attempted to get cattle and labour through negotiation, but as soon as these negotiations broke down slavery was implemented. An image of Jan Van Riebeeck and the local San people. Source: cybercapetown.com Even with slavery, the Dutch did not have sufficient labour power to provide for their ships. In 1657, some Company officials were released from their contracts and were allocated land along the Liesbeeck River. These officials became known as the Free Burghers (Farmers), and formed the nucleus of the white South African population that came to be known as Boers or Afrikaners. It soon became apparent that if the free burghers were to be successful as agricultural producers, they would need access to substantial labour. The indigenous peoples with whom the Dutch first came into contact, the Khoikhoi, had been settled in the region for at least a thousand years before the Dutch arrived, and were an unwilling labour force. This is because the Khoikhoi were a pastoral people, and as long as they had their lands, flocks of sheep and herds of cattle, they could not be pressed into service for the Dutch settlers. The settlers also practiced a form of settled agriculture that came into direct conflict with the pastoral economy of the Khoikhoi, and involved regular and structured seasonal migration. Therefore, as the Dutch settlement expanded, independent Khoikhoi communities were placed under unbearable pressure. Within 50 years of the establishment of the Dutch settlement, the indigenous communities near Table Bay, despite heroic struggles on their part, had been dispossessed of their lands and their independent means of existence had come to an end. Individual Khoikhoi men and women became incorporated into colonial society as low-status servants. Beyond the mountains of Table Valley, communities of Khoisan (as the Khoikhoi and the indigenous hunter-gatherer San are collectively called) survived until the end of the eighteenth century, but there can be little doubt that for the indigenous populations of the Cape the arrival of the Dutch settlers proved to be a major turning point. The Dutch settlers were therefore forced to look elsewhere for their labour needs. In 1658, a year after the first free burghers had been granted their plots of land, the first slaves were imported into South Africa, specifically for agricultural work. These slaves arrived at the Cape on 28 March 1658 on board the Amersfoort and had been captured by the Dutch from a Portuguese slaver en route to Brazil. Of the 250 slaves captured, only 170 survived the journey to the Cape. Most of these slaves were originally captured by the Portuguese in present-day Angola. On 6 May 1658, 228 slaves from another group of slaves arrived at the Cape on board the Hassalt, from Ghana. From 1710 onwards, the adult slave population outnumbered the adult colonial population by as much as three to one. Another source of slaves was the VOC’s return fleets from Batavia and other places in the east which sailed around the Cape on their way to Europe. VOC officials could not take their slaves with them when they returned home, as slavery was illegal in the Netherlands. Therefore, many of these officials sold their slaves at the Cape because they could get a better price for their slaves there than in the East Indies. Foreign ships on their way to the Americas from Madagascar also sold slaves at the Cape. The Indian Ocean Slave Routes © museums.org.za/iziko The Indian subcontinent was the main source of slaves during the early part of the 18th century, and approximately 80% of slaves came from India during this period. A slaving station was established in Delagoa Bay (present-day Maputo) in 1721, but was abandoned in 1731. Between 1731 and 1765 more and more slaves were bought from Madagascar. In 1795, the Cape Colony became a British colony, before it was returned to the Dutch in 1802. During this first period of British rule, South-East Africa became the main source of slaves. This trend continued with the return of the Dutch who continued to buy slaves from slave traders operating in present-day Mozambique. When in control of the Cape, the VOC sent slavers to Mozambique and Madagascar. The main purpose of these expeditions was to trade slaves. In those days, travelling by ship was very uncomfortable and unhygienic for ordinary people, but especially for slaves who had to be kept confined. Between 1720 and 1790, slave numbers increased from 2 500 to 14 500. At the time of the final ending of slavery in 1838, the slave population stood at around 38 000. However, unlike the European population, which doubled in number with each generation through natural increase, the harsh living conditions of the Cape's slave population meant that their numbers could only be sustained through continued importation. Between 1652 and the ending of the slave trade in 1807, about 60 000 slaves were imported into the Colony. Thus the Cape became not just a society in which some people were slaves, but a fully-fledged slave society. In slave societies, the institution of slavery touched all aspects of life, as slavery was central to the social, economic and legal institutions. As the boundaries of the Cape Colony expanded beyond the immediate vicinity of Table Bay, slaves were put to work on the wine and wheat farms of the south-western Cape. Quite simply, the colonial economy could not function without the use of slave labour, and therefore slave-ownership was widespread. Although most of the European settlers of the south-western Cape owned fewer than ten slaves, almost all of them owned at least some slaves. The most important social feature of slave societies is that they were polarised between people who were slaves and those who were not. Slaves were also defined by their race, and although the VOC did not institute a codified form of racial classification, the fact is that slaves were black and slave owners were white. There were a few slaves who had been freed, who were called “free blacks”. These “free blacks” had managed to acquire slaves of their own, but these slave owners were a tiny minority of the slave-owning population. Thus, colonial South Africa was from the very start a society structured along racial lines, in which black people occupied a subordinate position. Slavery was fully supported by the Roman-Dutch legal system that the VOC brought to the Cape. In terms of Roman-Dutch law, slaves were defined, first and foremost, as property. This form of slavery, known as chattel slavery, meant that one human being was the legal belonging of another human being. Slaves could be bought and sold, bequeathed or used as security for loans. Since slaves were kept in a state of slavery against their will, the slave owners and the VOC needed a system of laws to ensure that slaves were kept in their subordinate position. Therefore, slaves in the Cape were strictly controlled, and according to law, slaves could be severely punished for acts such as running away or failing to obey their owners’ orders. Slave owners were allowed to use harsh punishment like whipping, withholding food, and making slaves work more hours. Slaves who tried to run away were put in chains to prevent them from running away again, because many slaves from West and East Africa believed that if they ran away they could find their way back home. Slaves could even be put to death for attacking their owners. The food given to the slaves was terrible. It was only after the slave trade in Cape Town was banned that slave owners began to treat their slaves better. Better treatment of slaves was due to the fact that slaves were no longer easily available and therefore more expensive. Slaves were also treated better because slave owners did not want them to run away or die while they were still young. This was in contrast to the treatment of slaves before banning, as then it was cheaper for slave owners to buy new slaves instead of providing good care for them. How could slaves limit the power of slavery? The single largest limitation that the slave owners faced was that they were compelled to acknowledge that their slaves were not merely property, but also human beings with human values, desires and emotions. On farms and households in the Cape, slaves and slave owners lived very near each other and came into daily contact. The culture that grew out of these regular interactions was one of domination, but it was also one that was based on acknowledging the humanity of the other party. From the very first day when a slave was acquired by a settler and given a new name, slaves and owners became involved in a constant struggle to see how much each could impose their will on the other. We see this clearly in the records of the trial of the slave, Reijnier, a runaway who was caught and tried 22 years later. The story of Reijnier is based on the records of a criminal trial. We can tell much about the slave society of the Cape by examining the legal records that have been left behind by the VOC and are now held by the Cape Archives in Cape Town. In the first few decades of the eighteenth century, Reijnier lived in the district of Drakenstein in the south-western Cape. Reijnier, who had come from Madagascar, was the property of the free burgher, Matthijs Krugel. On Krugel's farm, Simonsvalleij, Reijnier had built a long-standing relationship with Manika, a female slave who had been imported from India. They had a number of children together, including a daughter named Sabina. It is clear that Manika and Reijnier's situation was unusual in the context of the Cape, as few slaves were able to build and sustain such longstanding relationships. Since the colonists preferred to import male rather than female slaves, the slave population suffered from great sexual imbalance. Until the end of the eighteenth century male slaves outnumbered female slaves by as much as four to one, although this ratio could vary significantly from district to district. The children born to Manika were born into slavery, for slave women passed this status onto their children. Manika's children would have been among only a small proportion of slaves who were born at the Cape in the course of the eighteenth century, as mentioned earlier, the slave population grew as a result of continued importation. We can only speculate as to the nature of the relationship that existed between Reijnier and Manika and the kind of life they would have been able to lead. Since they came from such different places of origin, they would probably have communicated with each other in a type of pidgin. Their owners would have spoken to them in Dutch, and out of this mixture of languages grew Afrikaans, as the slaves contributed their share to the development of this dialect. It is clear that Reijnier and Manika's owners, Krugel and his wife, whom they would have called Mijnheer and Mevrou, dominated their lives. Their roles as parents were also greatly inhibited by their status as slaves. For some reason, Krugel's wife had taken to regularly beating Reijnier and Manika's daughter, Sabina. Possibly this was a result of sexual jealousy, or perhaps Sabina did not perform her duties to the satisfaction of Mevrou Krugel. As parents, Reijnier and Manika had little control over the maltreatment that Sabina suffered and which they were forced to witness. It is a sad testimony to his lack of power that Reijnier, in an attempt to put an end to the abuse of his daughter, was prepared to ask Krugel to sell Sabina and possibly be separated from her for life. However, to say that Reijnier lacked power is not to say that he was absolutely powerless. There were clear limits to the level of domination that slave owners could exercise over their slaves. On one occasion, on a Saturday in a year around 1737, Mevrou Krugel had gone too far in her maltreatment of Sabina. She had clearly overstepped the boundaries that maintained the delicate balance of power between masters and slaves. On this occasion Krugel's wife stripped Sabina naked, tied her to a post and beat her mercilessly with a sjambok. Afterwards, to accentuate the pain, she rubbed salt into the wounds, a tactic commonly employed by Cape slave owners. The event obviously scarred Manika deeply, as she was able to tell the story clearly when she appeared before the law courts 22 years later. When Reijnier returned to the homestead after having worked in the fields he did not hesitate to vent his anger at the maltreatment of his daughter. His wife, Manika, was the unfortunate victim of his wrath. These were human actions and emotions, not the actions of people who could be defined simply as property. By now, Krugel and his wife had lost control over the slaves on Simonsvalleij. In an attempt to restore his authority, Krugel beat all the slaves on the farm. This was to no avail, for, as Manika testified, Reijnier turned on his master and assaulted him, although she did not witness the assault herself. As a consequence, Reijnier had to flee the farm. The mountains and valleys of the south-western Cape provided many hiding places for slaves who had deserted their owners. For more than two decades Reijnier lived in the mountains around the Berg River as a droster, as runaway slaves were called. For all this time Krugel had lost the labour of his slave, and therefore Reijnier had turned out to be a poor investment. It seemed that Krugel and his wife could not control their slaves, and resorted to physical violence as a means to maintain authority over their labour force, as many slave owners did. However, if such violence was allowed to spiral out of control, it could be counterproductive. Through his actions, Reijnier had shown the limitations of the use of slave labour in a colonial society. To read more about ‘the world that slaves lived in, slave names and lifestyles, visit the Iziko online slavery heritage project The Story of Dina Another anecdote of slave life concerns a slave woman by the name of Dina, who was owned by Roelof Petrus Johannes Campher, a cattle farmer in the district of George, Cape Colony. In October 1837, Dina was working in her master’s cattle kraal, loading cattle dung onto the wagon. The cattle dung would be taken to the farm garden to be used as a fertiliser. When the wagon was full, she stopped loading the wagon and instead piled up the dung for the next load. Her master asked her why she was doing this but he was not pleased with her explanation. Roelof then beat her twice with an ox strap. Dina tried to run to Mrs Campher to ask her to stop Roelof from beating her. However, Roelof removed her clothes from the back, tied her to a ladder and continued to beat her with an ox strap. He gave her twenty-one lashes, and before beating her, Roelof said to Dina that he did not care about the law. After the beating Dina was forced to go back to work. The story of Dina shows that severe beatings like these were very common even though the laws were written to avoid them. The story of Dina can be told because she reported it to the council of justice. Cases like these occurred regularly, but were not reported, as many slaves were still used to being whipped by their masters. Dina did not complain that she was being beaten. Instead, she complained that she was beaten without doing anything wrong. This shows that the reforms were not fully implemented in the Cape Colony. What was the impact of runaway slaves on the Cape slave society? Almost from the start, slaves began to runaway, because of ill treatment, overwork and the natural desire to live as a free person. Reijnier was one of many slave runaways. He never ventured too far from the settler farms, and it is probably this that led to his eventual capture. Manika may not have been entirely truthful when she testified that she had not seen him in all the years after he had fled. Runaway slaves were frequently supplied with foodstuffs from surrounding farms, since they often lacked the knowledge that would allow them to feed themselves from the natural environment. Individual runaways were thus very vulnerable. It made sense for them to join bands and find strength in numbers. Thus there existed throughout the eighteenth century, and until the ending of slavery, a community of runaway slaves in the caves of the Hottentots Holland Mountains overlooking False Bay. This was the maroon community of Hangklip. This community survived as long as it did because of the protected physical environment. The series of caves in which the runaways lived had only two entrances. On the one side, they were protected by the ocean, which made entry difficult and very dangerous. The other entrance, from the mountain, could be easily defended. The maroon community at Hangklip was never able to cut itself off from the rest of colonial society and for this reason they were vulnerable. If they attacked wagons crossing the Hottentots Holland Mountains, they exposed themselves to the possibility of recapture. Although they could to some extent live off fish caught from the ocean, mostly they were dependent for their survival on goods obtained from slaves who lived on surrounding farms, and from other runaways who lived as far away as Table Mountain across the Cape Flats. The Hangklip maroons were not as successful as the maroon communities of slaves that existed in Brazil, for example, where colonial authorities were compelled to recognise their independence. However, the fact remains that the Dutch authorities were never able to wipe out the community, and the Hangklip maroons continued to live on the margins of colonial society. It became clear to the colonial authorities at the Cape, especially after the British took over political power from the Dutch, that the use of slave labour had severe limitations. Two minor rebellions of slaves in 1808 and 1825, in which a number of white settlers were killed, made the continued use of slave labour even less appealing. Moreover, by the second decade of the nineteenth century the use of slave labour was no longer as profitable as it had been in earlier decades. Thus, when the British government finally ended slavery in 1838, the Cape ceased to be a slave society. It remained a colonial society, but the ending of slavery was another significant turning point in the history of South Africa. Slavery moves towards South Africa’s interior It soon became apparent to the Boers that beyond the Western Cape and Boland regions, the terrain of South Africa was unsuitable for intensive agriculture but very suitable for cattle farming. The majority of them lacked the financial means to buy slaves imported all the way from Indonesia, but since they were already in the process of dispossessing the indigenous population of their land, it seemed logical to take both the land and the people by force. In the wars which they fought against the Khoi and the San, the Boers frequently followed a policy of exterminating the mature adults, but capturing the children and raising them on the farms. These children were taught to speak Dutch and to practice the Christian religion. This system was hypocritically known as “apprenticeship”, but in fact it was nothing better than slavery because normal human and family rights were not respected, and children were bought and sold separately from their parents. During the period of the Napoleonic Wars in Europe, the British captured the Cape from the Dutch who were allied to Napoleon. From 1828 onwards the British introduced a number of administrative changes, known collectively as “the Revolution in Government”. These changes imposed British laws and the English language on the reluctant Boers, and limited the amount of land and labour that could be claimed by an individual. In response, the Boers set out on an epic quest (see Great Trek) to establish themselves as a free people in their own country, where they could govern themselves according to their own tastes and habits. After an unsuccessful attempt to establish themselves in what is today KwaZulu-Natal, they settled on the highveld. There they founded two republics, the Orange Free State (1854) and the Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek (ZAR), better known as the Transvaal (1858). The Abolition of Slavery at the Cape The British occupied the Cape again in 1806, and in 1814 the Cape officially became a British colony. The growing influence of the concept of human rights at the beginning of the 19th century, and the effects of a changing economic system in Western Europe during the same period both contributed to the questioning of the practice of slavery. Therefore from 1806, the British introduced laws (Amelioration laws) aimed at improving the welfare of slaves in the Cape. The slave guardian appointed by the British government was responsible for enforcing these laws. As a result, the lives of some slaves improved after 1807. Even though there were reforms and laws to protect slaves, some masters continued to ill-treat their slaves by administering cruel punishment and ignoring these reform laws. Slaves were expected to report any ill treatment to the slave protector appointed by the colonial government. Amelioration laws Slaves were allowed to make legal marriages after 1824. Families were allowed to live together: wives and husbands could not be separated and their children could not be sold before a certain age. Slaves were now taught Christianity, and the baptism of slaves was encouraged. Sunday became a day of rest. Slaves had to receive a reasonable amount of food, shelter and clothing. The number of hours the slaves could be made to work was limited. The punishment of slaves was more strictly controlled. Slaves were granted property rights. Slaves who worked in their free time could save what they earned, and buy freedom for themselves and their families - even against the wishes of the owner. Some slaves in Cape Town were given a basic education. The government appointed slave guardians to ensure that these laws were obeyed. There is evidence that the slaves knew about their rights and made use of them. Some brought complaints against their owners in the courts or to the Guardian of Slaves. Both slave uprisings happened during this period, and in both cases the slaves demanded immediate freedom. The end of slavery at the Cape was not due to internal pressure, but from a decision from outside. In 1807 the British government banned the slave trade to all her colonies, including the Cape. This meant that no more slaves (from any destination) could be sent to work in the Cape. However, those who were already in the Cape continued to work as slaves until 1834 when all slaves in the British Empire were to be set free (emancipated). Many of the slaves chose to remain on with their owners while some started a new life in and around Cape Town working as tradesmen. Gradually these people became absorbed into the Cape community. To read more about the process of ‘Emancipation’ and the Cape after emancipation visit the Iziko online slavery heritage project Does slavery still exist today? Today, the term slavery is used to indicate a wide range of human rights abuses and exploitative labour practices. The United Nations defines contemporary slavery as consisting of: ...a variety of human rights violations. In addition to traditional slavery and the slave trade, these abuses include the sale of children, child prostitution, child pornography, the exploitation of child labour, the sexual mutilation of female children, the use of children in armed conflicts, debt bondage, the traffic in persons and in the sale of human organs, the exploitation of prostitution, and certain practices under apartheid and colonial regimes. The term “slavery” therefore has a much broader use than chattel slavery. As recently as May 2002, the Anti-Slavery Society reported that “Millions of children are in slavery. Girls as young as six work as maids in the Philippines, children break rocks in Ghana’s quarries, young boys are abducted from their homes in South Asia and forced to be camel jockeys in the United Arab Emirates and girls are forced into prostitution in the United Kingdom”. Sources in Our Archive Secrets of the Dead: Slave Ship Mutiny WE HAVE THE KEY TO FREEDOM NOT THE OPPRESSOR, December 16, 1957 Simon's Town walking history tours Slavery and the Slave Trade in the Indian Ocean by Vijayalakshmi Teelock and Abdul Sheriff The Making of a Runaway The Missing Mothers of the Slave Lodge - slave families in the Company Lodge, 1658 - 1828 by Robert Shell and Linda Mbeki, University of Cape Town,16 May 2014 Letter from Maryland (http://www.archaeology.org/) by Julie Schablitsky Let them Speak - Slave Stamouers of South Africa by André van Rensburg Behind Rangton's Door - a Balinese Woodcarver at Stellenbosch, 1673 to 1720 by Robert C.H. Shell INDIAN SLAVES IN SOUTH AFRICA: A little-known aspect of Indian-South African relations by E. S. Reddy show all  Collections in the Archives History of slavery and early colonisation in South Africa Settler Colonialism and Afrikaner Nationalism Articles The First Slaves at the Cape The Early Cape Slave Trade A history of prison labour in South Africa ‘Liberated’ Slaves? by Joline Young Ship list of Indian Indentured Labourers Louis van Mauritius and the Slave Revolt of 1808 How Unique was Slavery at the Cape? Convict Stations & Labour in the Cape Colony Further reading and Links pertaining to History of Slavery and early colonisation in SA Amersfoort Legacy - History of education in South Africa Indenture: A new system of slavery? Slave Resistance People Robert Carl-Heinz Shell Simon van der Stel Jan Smiesing Anna De Koningh Places Amandel, a Railway Siding in the Eastern Cape Timelines History of Slavery and early colonisation in SA timeline 1602-1841 Archive A Forgotten Diaspora: Forced Indian Migration to the Cape Colony, 1658 to 1834 by Parbavati Rama \| Theses and Dissertations Behind Rangton's Door - a Balinese Woodcarver at Stellenbosch, 1673 to 1720 by Robert C.H. Shell Cape Slave Naming Patterns by Robert Shell Damon – The Malabar Slave (Historic Alleys) Die Eerste Vryswartes Van Stellenbosch - 1679-1720 by Prof. J.L. Hattingh, University of the Western Cape, Bellville, 1981 Grim History Traced in Sunken Slave Ship Found Off South Africa by Helene Cooper (The New York Times), 31 May 2015 INDIAN SLAVES IN SOUTH AFRICA: A little-known aspect of Indian-South African relations by E. S. Reddy
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0.999919	An industrial robot is officially defined by ISO (Standard 8373:1994, Manipulating Industrial Robots – Vocabulary) as an automatically controlled, reprogrammable, multipurpose manipulator programmable in three or more axes. The field of industrial robotics may be more practically defined as the study, design and use of robot systems for manufacturing (a top-level definition relying on the prior definition of robot). Typical applications of industrial robots include welding, painting, ironing, assembly, pick and place, palletizing, product inspection, and testing, all accomplished with high endurance, speed, and precision. Manufacturers of industrial robots include: Intelligent Actuator, Adept, Epson Robots, Yaskawa-Motoman, ABB, EPSON-SEIKO, igm Robotersysteme, KUKA, Kawasaki and FANUC Robotics. Contents 1 Industrial robot types, features 2 Robot programming 3 Characteristics of industrial robots 4 History of industrial robotics 5 See also 6 References 7 External links Industrial robot types, features The most commonly used robot configurations for industrial automation, include articulated robots (the original, and most common), SCARA robots and gantry robots (aka Cartesian Coordinate robots, or x-y-z robots). In the context of general robotics, most types of industrial robots would fall into the category of robot arms (inherent in the use of the word manipulator in the above-mentioned ISO standard). Industrial robots exhibit varying degrees of autonomy. Robots are programmed to faithfully do specific actions over and over again without variation and with a high degree of accuracy. These actions are determined by programmed routines that specify the direction, acceleration, velocity, deceleration, and distance of a series of coordinated motions. Other industrial robots are much more flexible as to the orientation of the object on which they are operating or even the task that has to be performed on the object itself, which the robot may even need to identify. For example, for more precise guidance, robots often contain machine vision sub-systems acting as their "eyes", linked to powerful computers or controllers. Artificial intelligence, or what passes for it, is becoming an increasingly important factor in the modern industrial robot. Robot programming The setup or programming of motions and sequences for an industrial robot is typically taught by linking the robot controller via communication cable to the Ethernet, FireWire, USB or serial port of a laptop computer. The computer is installed with corresponding interface software. The use of a computer greatly simplifies the programming process. Robots can also be taught via teaching pendant, a handheld control and programming unit. The teaching pendant or PC is usually disconnected after programming and the robot then runs on the program that has been installed in its controller. In addition, machine operators often use "HMI" human-machine-interface devices, typically touch screen units, which serve as the operator control panel. The operator can switch from program to program, make adjustments within a program and also operate a host of peripheral devices that may be integrated within the same robotic system. These peripheral devices include robot end effectors which are devices that can grasp an object, usually by vacuum, electromechanical or pneumatic devices. Also emergency stop controls, machine vision systems, safety interlock systems, bar code printers and an almost infinite array of other industrial devices are accessed and controlled via the operator control panel. Characteristics of industrial robots number of axes – two axes are required to reach any point in a plane; three axes are required to reach any point in space. To fully control the orientation of the end of the arm (i.e. the wrist) three more axes (roll, pitch and yaw) are required. Some designs (e.g. the SCARA robot) trade limitations in motion possibilities for cost, speed, and accuracy. kinematics – the actual arrangement of rigid members and joints in the robot, which determines the robot's possible motions. Classes of robot kinematics include articulated, cartesian, parallel and SCARA. working envelope – the region of space a robot can reach. carrying capacity – how much weight a robot can lift. speed – how fast the robot can position the end of its arm. accuracy – how closely a robot can reach a commanded position. Accuracy can vary with speed and position within the working envelope. power source – some robots use electric motors, other use hydraulic actuators. The former are faster, the later are stronger and advantageous in applications such as spray painting, where a spark could set off an explosion. drive – some robots connect electric motors to the joints via gears; others connect the motor to the joint directly (direct drive). History of industrial robotics The first company to produce an industrial robot was Unimation, founded by Joseph F. Engelberger in 1962, with the basic inventions of George Devol. Unimation robots were also called programmable transfer machines since their main use at first was to transfer objects from one point to another, less than a dozen feet or so apart. They used hydraulic actuators and were programmed in joint coordinates, i.e. the angles of the various joints were stored during a teaching phase and replayed in operation. For some time Unimation's only competitor was Cincinnati Milacron Inc. of Ohio. This changed radically in the late 1970s when several big Japanese conglomerates began producing similar industrial robots. Unimation had obtained patents in the United States but not in Japan, so their designs were copied and then improved upon in that country. In 1969 Victor Scheinman at Stanford University invented the Stanford arm, an all-electric, 6-axis articulated robot designed to permit an arm solution. This allowed the robot to accurately follow arbitrary paths in space and widened the potential use of the robot to more sophisticated applications such as assembly and arc welding. Sheinman sold his design to Unimation who further developed it with support from General Motors and later sold it as the Programmable Universal Machine for Assembly (PUMA). Interest in industrial robotics swelled in the late 1970s and many companies entered the field, including large firms like General Electric, and General Motors (which formed joint venture FANUC Robotics with FANUC LTD of Japan). US start-ups included Automatix and Adept Technology, Inc. At the height of the robot boom in 1984, Unimation was acquired by Westinghouse Electric Corporation for 107 million US dollars. Westinghouse sold Unimation to Stäubli Faverges SCA of France in 1988. Stäubli was still making articulated robots for general industrial and clean room applications as of 2004 and even bought the robotic division of Bosch in late 2004. Eventually the deeper long term financial resources and strong domestic market enjoyed by the Japanese companies prevailed, their robots spread all over the globe. Only a few non-Japanese companies managed to survive in this market, including Adept, Stäubli-Unimation, the Swedish-Swiss company ABB (ASEA Brown-Boveri), the Austrian manufacturer igm Robotersysteme AG and the German company KUKA. See also list of production topics autonomous robot References Nof, Shimon Y. (editor) (1999). Handbook of Industrial Robotics, 2nd ed. John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 0471177830. A comprehensive reference on the categories and applications of industrial robotics. 1378 pages. External links Intelligent Actuator (http://www.intelligentactuator.com/) CSi Robotics (http://www.csiweb.nl/index.php3) ABB Robotics (http://www.abb.com/robotics) Adept (http://www.adept.com/) FANUC Robotics America, Inc. (http://www.fanucrobotics.com/) Yaskawa (http://www.yaskawa.com/) Motoman, Inc. (http://www.motoman.com/) (daughter company of Yaskawa) igm Robotersysteme (http://www.igm.at/) KUKA Roboter (http://www.kuka-roboter.com/) Trueforce (http://www.trueforce.com/) Kawasaki (http://www.kawasakirobotics.com/) ISO Standards (http://www.iso.org/iso/en/stdsdevelopment/tc/tclist/TechnicalCommitteeStandardsListPage.TechnicalCommitteeStandardsList?COMMID=4289).
0.99998	Shafaq News / Erbil's governor, Omed Khoshnaw, announced that the decisions of the Supreme Committee to Combat COVID-19 in the Kurdistan Region will last four days, promising to ease the procedures in the month of Ramadan if the number of cases decreases. Khoshnaw said in a press conference that the Erbil operations command held a meeting today to implement the committee's decision, adding that the Erbil's residents had been asked to adhere to the preventive measures, but not all of them did, and that is why a partial lockdown will be imposed. The governor called on all Erbil residents, "to abide by the decision of the Supreme Committee to reduce COVID-19 cases." "We hope that cases will decrease as the month of Ramadan comes, so that the Supreme Committee meets to take special decisions for the holy month", noting, "the upcoming meeting will be held on the 12th of this month." related COVID-19: 52 new cases and one fatality in Kurdistan today Date: 2021-02-05 17:38:38 Covid-19: 69 new cases in the Autonomous Administration today Date: 2020-12-30 19:43:32 Akitu celebrations canceled due to COVID-19 Date: 2021-04-01 09:00:16 Covid-19: 658 new cases in Kurdistan today Date: 2020-08-15 10:42:16 COVID-19: +1000 new cases and seven mortalities in Kurdistan today Date: 2021-04-18 12:36:57 COVID-19: 22 fatalities and 900 new cases in Kurdistan today Date: 2020-10-13 14:04:59 COVID-19: 45 new confirmed cases in AANES Date: 2021-05-25 10:19:32 A founder of Gorran passed away from COVID-19 Date: 2020-11-10 07:17:05 We're sorry but Shafaaq website doesn't work properly without JavaScript enabled. Please enable it to continue.
0.999375	The cloud is more than an efficient storage solution and more companies move to cloud-based services. It’s important to understand the emerging trends in Cloud computing to watch upcoming years. In this article, we have discussed top 8 trends in cloud computing to watch current year and beyond. Cloud computing, according to IT experts, would be at the cutting edge of every technology in the future years to address major business concerns. With major company cloud spending growing at a 16% compound annual growth rate between the years 2016 and 2026, almost everyone agrees that the cloud is no longer viewed solely as a tool by businesses. Their current focus is on leveraging cloud security in meeting various business goals. As per the report, roughly 83% of company responsibilities will be kept in the cloud by 2021, as a growing number of enterprises migrate from a private cloud to a public cloud. By 2022, revenue from the public cloud sector is predicted to increase to USD 331 billion, up from USD 175 billion in 2018. Trends in Cloud Computing Some of the most prominent cloud computing forecasts and trends to watch upcoming year as follows: 1. Cloud Computing using Hybrid Infrastructure Cloud computing with a hybrid model refers to the use of both a private cloud and a public cloud managed by a third party. It is primarily used to let workloads move between public and private clouds, allowing clients to be more flexible with their registration requirements. Cloud computing with a hybrid model is expected to grow to USD 97.64 billion in market size by 2023, thanks to its numerous benefits. Certainly, tech giants such as Amazon and Microsoft are investing heavily in product innovation. 2. Recovery These days Cyber attacks, data blackouts, and system failures are all part of business maintenance. Most businesses have experienced server breakdowns, resulting in documents with critical information loss. Disaster recovery and reinforcement have been popular use cases of a cloud to ensure that such difficulties do not impact the organization and its activities. 3. Design Without a Server A serverless architecture eliminates all of the drawbacks that a traditional IT infrastructure would normally offer. Clients are not required to lease or purchase the servers on which they store their data. If all other factors are equal, a third party would manage everything for you, leaving your company to concentrate on other tasks. There are numerous advantages to a serverless design, including lower liability, without system administration, basic management of operations, and so on. 4. Platform for Artificial Intelligence Artificial intelligence is one of the most popular patterns of distributed computing to watch as innovation continues. The tech industry’s big names are looking into including AI to cope with massive amounts of data in order to improve their business processes. Stages of processing are increasing their output by employing artificial intelligence. It now gives businesses the ability to deal with and computerize their processes intelligently. Additionally, the structure enables them to efficiently scale and adapt to the upgrading needs of the organization. 5. Cloud Security Security, especially for traditional IT foundations, is a serious concern due to data theft, spillage, and removal. This year, cloud security isn’t only the cloud computing trend; it’s a requirement that each organization is addressing. Upcomming year, the client will be responsible for nearly 95% of breakdowns in cloud security. 6. Platform for the IoT The most well-known cloud computing development in today’s largely connected world is the rise of the internet of things platforms. According to a study, by 2021, the number of things associated with it would increase to 25 billion, rising up from 2019 that is 14.2 billion. An Internet of Things is a platform based on the cloud that will be working with conventional devices to enable cloud-based apps and administrators. IoT functions as a middleman, collecting data from a variety of devices via a remote device setup and management of smart devices. 7. Edge Computing This is a method for improving the network of distributed computing structure by executing data preparations at the organization’s edge, near the source of the data. It continually works on cloud workers that will deal with data that isn’t as time-sensitive or retain data for as long as feasible. That means that, as a result of the continued integration of telco and IT, 2019 will usher in a new era of cutting-edge thinking, opening up a slew of new options for businesses to take advantage of new technology and processing power. 8. Open Source Organizations can gain a number of benefits by using a platform for open innovation. They can grow their cloud infrastructure quickly, adding features is much easier than with a closed source platform, and there are lesser security issues. The tech industry is transitioning to the shared workspace, and choosing an open-source administration of distributed computing is by every account the best course of action for new or scaling firms. This is why many experts believe that open source will be the technology’s ultimate fate. Cloud Computing Future Here are a few predictions for cloud computing: 1. Increase Capacity of Storage Large amounts of data are being generated today, making it difficult to store securely. Major enterprises require a safe data storage site. As cloud computing has so much curiosity, it is expected that additional data centers would be provided by cloud providers at reduced prices due to the extreme competition. More data would be stored in your firm with its help. 2. Enhancements to Internet Performance The IoT can help to improve the quality of the internet. With the usage of Cloud Computing and IoT, we may save data in the cloud for later analysis and increased performance. Users will seek high-quality applications and services that load quickly. The network offered will be fast, and data would be received and delivered more effectively. 3. Priority Will Be Given to Modular Software The size of a single application, as well as its complexity, is steadily expanding. As a result, Cloud computing will soon necessitate advanced system thinking. Since applications would be stored in places other than the clouds, later on, we can look at software development from a variety of perspectives. This application would be stored on several modules on various Cloud Service servers. This can also help to lower software costs by allowing program components to be stored in separate locations. 4. Software that is Modular Companies use a lot of software that hasn’t been modified in a long time. As a result, cloud computing necessitates the use of customized software that provides enhanced security and provisions. This program would be easier to use and more flexible. One of the most significant advantages of this application is that it will save both money and time. Companies that provide services and software are improving, as shown in the graph below. 5. Economic When cloud computing develops continuously, the hardware usage will reduce because the major work would be done through virtualization and cloud computing. We can minimize the software setup cost by dividing it, which would result in lesser hardware usage. If current trends continue, data stored in a cloud would be examined by a computer with no requirement for human intervention. Conclusion We hope this article is very useful and provided the necessary insights for the readers. We have also discussed the future forecasts along with these current trends in cloud computing. Online cloud computing course will help you master the skills of cloud computing that enable you to learn analytics, marketing automation, sales operations, application development, and SaaS services. Future can’t be predicted by anyone, but we could make educated forecasts depending on present usage and trends. I recommended that you obtain this credential as a ServiceNow Certified Implementation Specialist (CIS) certification in order to advance your career with ServiceNow training available online. If you have found this article helpful. Let us know your questions or feedback if any through the comment section in below. You can subscribe our newsletter and get notified when we publish new articles for free. Moreover, you can explore here other interested articles. 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0.969938	The avocado is a stone fruit with a creamy nature that is popular worldwide and is known for its immense health benefits; both the soft fruit and its hard seed are medicinal; there are lots of scientific researches to prove its nutritional and medicinal value. We will be looking at some of the tremendous health benefits of this wonderful fruit and its seeds. Health benefits of avocado fruit The fruit is nutritious: This fruit is prized for its high nutrient value; it is referred to as a “super food”, this nutritious food contains a wide variety of nutrients including 20 different vitamins and minerals. Some of the most abundant nutrients in a serving of avocado fruit are vitamin K, folate, beta-carotene, omega-3 fatty acids, vitamin C, potassium, vitamin B5, vitamin B6 and vitamin E. It also contains small amounts of magnesium, manganese, copper, iron, zinc, phosphorous, riboflavin, pantothenic acid, vitamin A, B1, B2 and B3.A single serving of avocado fruit also has 160 calories, 3.4 grams of carbohydrates, 0.5 grams of sugar, 2 grams of proteins, 7 grams of fiber and 15 grams of healthy fats. They have no cholesterol or sodium and they are low in saturated fats. It prevents morning sickness: Morning sickness is very common in pregnant women; taking this fruit helps overcome nausea and queasiness during pregnancy, it rich content of vitamin B6 is responsible for this because it can reduce nausea and vomiting. It makes babies healthy: This fruit is rich in folate which supports a healthy pregnancy and reduces the risk of miscarriages and neural tube defects. It has antioxidant properties: This fruit is rich in vitamin C and E which supports the antioxidant properties of the body; vitamin C recycles vitamin E and helps reduce the oxidation of low density lipoprotein cholesterol. It also contains other antioxidant like epicatechin, violaxanthin and neochrome that help to neutralize the effects of free radicals that are responsible for diseases like cancer, premature aging, cognitive disorders, vision problems, cardiovascular diseases, etc. It is a rich source of potassium: Avocado has more potassium than bananas; potassium supports healthy functioning of the heart and it helps in maintaining the electrical gradient in the cells. Many people are deficient in potassium today and this mineral is needed for various molecular functions in the body. Potassium reduces blood pressure and cuts the risk for chronic diseases like kidney failure, stroke and heart attacks. It fights rapid aging: Consuming this fruit regularly will prevent rapid aging; it contains xanthophyll which is an antioxidant that It lowers the risk of depression: Foods high in folate are good in cutting the risk of depression and avocado is in the list of these foods; folate prevents the buildup of homocysteine which is a substance that can impair the circulation of blood and the delivery of nutrients to the brain and this can affect the brain and lead to depression. Excess amount of homocysteine in the body can interfere with the production of serotonin, dopamine and norepinephrine; these chemical messengers regulate mood, sleep and appetite. It is loaded with healthy mono-unsaturated fatty acids which are good for the heart: This super food is a high fat food and one of the fattiest plant food in existence; this fats are healthy for the heart and the majority of the fat contained is oleic acid, this fatty acid is also present in olive oil and it is responsible for some of its health benefits. Oleic acid reduces inflammation and it prevents cancer by working on genes linked to cancer; the other healthy fatty acids present in this fruit are resistant to heat induced oxidation which makes avocado oil healthy and safe for cooking. It improves digestion of food: Its high fiber content prevents constipation, maintains a healthy digestive tract and reduces the risk of colon cancer. The fiber also serves as food for the friendly bacteria in the intestine which helps in digestion and supports a healthy immune system. It is a good source of fiber: This fruit is loaded with fiber which aids weight loss, reduce the level of sugar in the bloodstream and reduces the risk of many chronic diseases including colon cancer. The fiber also feed the friendly gut bacteria in the intestine and this will boost immune functions and make the body to function optimally. It detoxifies the body: This fruit helps in detoxifying the body naturally; it rich content of fiber boosts regular movement of the bowels which helps in the daily excretion of toxins through bile and stool. The fiber also regulates the immune system and reduces inflammation. It lowers cholesterol and triacylglycerides: High levels of cholesterol and triacylglycerides is behind chronic diseases including heart disease which is the most common cause of death in the world; eating this fruit regularly will reduce the total level of cholesterol significantly, it will reduce the levels of triacylglycerides in the blood by 20%, it will lower low density lipoprotein cholesterol by 22% and increase the level of high density lipoprotein cholesterol by 11%. It has antimicrobial action: This fruit has antimicrobial substances; they are effectively particularly against E.coli which a leading cause of food poisoning. Studies prove that those who eat this fruit regularly are healthier than those who don’t: In the NHANES survey in the United States; a study analyzed data from 17,567 participants and they found out that those who consumed avocados were healthier than those who didn’t. The avocado consumers had much nutrient intake, their risk for metabolic syndrome were cut by half, risks factors for diabetes and heart disease were also improved, they weighed less, had lower body mass index, less belly fat and more good high density lipoprotein cholesterol. It protects from chronic diseases: Its rich source of fiber significantly lowers the risk of developing coronary heart disease, obesity, diabetes, high blood pressure, stroke and some gastrointestinal diseases. It also enhances the sensitivity of insulin. It aids in the absorption of nutrients: The healthy fats in this fruit helps one to absorb nutrients from plant foods; it helps the absorption of fat soluble nutrients and vitamins (vitamins A, D, E and K) and carotenoids which are powerful antioxidants. The fruit or its oil helps the body to absorb antioxidant and this is why it is eaten with vegetables, it is added to vegetable smoothies and salads. It prevents bad breath: This fruit is a natural remedy for bad breath; it prevents indigestion or an upset stomach which is the primary cause of bad breath. It also has antimicrobial properties that can kill the bacteria in the mouth that cause bad breath and they can even prevent oral cancer. It protects the eyes: The fruit is loaded with powerful antioxidants that protect the eyes; they also contain lutein and zeaxanthine which are important for the health of the eyes. These nutrients reduce the risk of eye problems like cataracts and macular degeneration which are common in the elderly. It benefits the skin and hair: This fruit is packed with nutrients that supports and maintain a healthy skin; it enriches dry, chapped or damaged skin and it contains essential vitamins that makes the skin glow. This fruit is used in many natural cosmetics and they are used to prepare hair and face masks. The oil of avocado can treat plaque psoriasis and it is very rich in beta-carotene and lycopene. The nutrients in this fruits also nourish dry and damaged hair. It can help in the prevention of cancer: This fruit when taken by cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy can help them overcome the side effects of this treatment in human lymphocytes; a study showed that it inhibits the growth of prostate cancer cells. It protects the liver: This fruit is very powerful in reducing liver damages; it has organic compounds that improve the health of the liver and it plays a role in toning up and protecting the liver from a wide variety of conditions, it can even protect the liver against hepatitis C and the damages that it causes. It relieves symptoms of arthritis: Avocados unsaponifables are extracts from avocados that when used together with soybean unsaponifables can reduce the symptoms of arthritis of the bones (osteoarthritis). It makes the kidneys healthy: It helps those suffering from chronic diseases to maintain the balance of minerals and fluids; potassium helps maintain a healthy heart and avocado is rich in potassium; potassium also maintains the fluid balance through channels for cells and organs. This balance of fluid and minerals is important for healthy functioning of the kidneys and it helps in the movement of fluids and toxins from the body. It helps in weight loss: This fruit is a weight loss friendly food; it gives a feeling of satisfaction and reduces the desire to eat for over 5 hours. The fruit is high in fiber and low in carbs and these promotes weight loss. It prevents a deficiency in vitamin K: A deficiency in this vitamin can lead to problems in a newborn if the mother is deficient in this vitamin and it can lead to bleeding disorder. Pregnant women low in this vitamin should eat lots of avocados. It hastens healing of wound: Studies have proved the effectiveness of this fruit in healing wounds; it enriches dry, chapped, damaged and sun burnt skin and it can heal wounds all over the body. How to use Avocado? This fruit can be eaten alone or it can be eaten with bread; it can also be added to smoothies. What about the seeds? The seeds are always thrown away and that is because the important health benefits of the seed are not known by many; just like the fruit, the seed is medicinal and can be used to treat a wide range of illnesses. There are known to prevent anemia because they are very rich in iron. They can serve as natural food dye which gives food an orange colour and they have no side effects like the chemical food dyes. The seed of avocado is very healthy; 70% of the amino acids found in the fruit are found in the seeds and it contains more soluble fiber than any other food. All the health benefits mentioned above can be carried out by the seed; the only difference is that over consuming it can cause constipation and other side effects due to its tannin content. How to consume avocado seed? You can make an infusion by boiling the seed for 10 minutes, and then let it cool then you drink it throughout the day. It can be dried and grounded into powder; this can be stored in an airtight container and can be added to soups, stews, rice, smoothies, pastas and any food of your choice. The powder can even use to make face mask or cream to apply on boils and skin blemishes. It makes them dry quicker. To make a face mask with avocado seed; mix the power with a little bit of hot water and put between two layers of grease and apply on the skin for 5 to 10 minutes until you notice that it is dry. Do it daily until the skin condition improves. The raw seed can be grated and use for hair care and scalp treatment. After grating the seeds; mix it with castor oil and let it soak for a day, then rub it on your scalp. Cover your head with a film or towel and let it sit for one hour and wash your hair well. They can also be used for massages and body rub; crush the seeds and mix it with alcohol; let it soak for a week, this mixture can be used for body massage in cases of joint and muscle pains, migraines, neck and back pain. The seeds can also be used as rodent poison; grind the seed and mix it with flour and set it in rodent prone areas.
0.978522	Sawing lumber with a bandsaw mill can be easier if you know the right way of how to saw lumber with a Bandsaw mill. Lumber may come in different shapes round or square. Round lumbers are common for the carpenters. A band saw is the easiest staff to cut the round lumber in just a while. Professional woodworkers follow sawmill techniques to transfer lumber into square cant or log. Sawmill cutting patterns are must-follow factors while dealing with lumber. Don’t worry! I have mentioned the cutting pattern for lumber with a bandsaw mill in this article. Go through the paragraphs eventually to get the easiest way. Let’s begin with cutting patterns. Sawmill cutting patterns for Lumber with a Bandsaw Mill Table of Content show Sawmill cutting patterns for Lumber with a Bandsaw Mill Live Sawing: Cant Sawing: Plain Sewing: Grade Sawing: Quarter Sawing: How to Saw Lumber with a Bandsaw mill step by step Step 1 Set the Miter bar: Step 2 Choose the right pattern regarding your needs: Step 3 Start cutting for the first time: Step 4 Cut for the second time and continuously: Step 5 Have the boards: Step 6 Process the boards: Step 7 Finishing up: Live Sawing: Live sawing is the easiest pattern to cut lumber with a bandsaw mill. People also call it line cutting and slab sawing. In this pattern, you have to cut the log at the opening face until the half of the logs. Then, saw again in the opposite direction. It takes very little time to cut. Moreover, you can make the line pattern easily in this way. If you want large boards, then you should follow this live sawing pattern. Cant Sawing: Cant sawing is the most popular log cutting style because of its valuable boards. Live sawing carries edges in each pattern while cant sawing provides you with a flat board without any edges. Here, you have to cut the opening face and the sides of the log simply. Cut the top of the log for the first time. Then, flip it 180-degrees for the next cut. Likewise, cut the left three sides following this angle. At last, you will have a square board that is precious and edge-free. Plain Sewing: Plain sawing is just like Cant sawing. You can cut the four-sided log more to get the targeted board. To have plain sawing, you have to follow the same instructions of the Cant sawing. Plain sawing will provide you the best quality cant. Grade Sawing: Grade sawing is the best option if you are looking for the best pieces of the log. Here, you have to turn the log five times to have the slides. You can follow the process of the cant sawing just adding one more turning. Remember, the production ratio of this cutting is very low. Quarter Sawing: Quarter sawing refers to the cutting logs following the grains. This cutting is costly and production is very low. If you have an order or target to use the grain part of the wood for a specific reason, then you can have quarter sawing. Here, you may need to cut the slides several times. How to Saw Lumber with a Bandsaw mill step by step Step 1 Set the Miter bar: The miter bar is the first staff that you need to contact at the very beginning. Here, you have to adjust the miter bar measuring the log size. You will find a miter bar with 10 inches wide and 2 feet long. Measure the size of your lumber logs. Then, mark the miter bar with the measured size. Attach the miter bar with the MDF. You may have to make some holes in the bar to attach to the MDF. It will help you to go through the right pattern. Step 2 Choose the right pattern regarding your needs: In this step, you have to choose the right pattern that you want. You should choose the cutting style regarding your needs and targets. To sell the pieces of board normally, you should select the first one “Live sawing”. It is easy to get. Next, to produce a little bit of valuable board with the wooden piece, you should select Cant sawing. Cant sawing will provide you the best quality lumber. Then, Plain sawing and grade sawing will be appropriate for making something precious. These cuttings provide very low production from the lumber. Step 3 Start cutting for the first time: Selecting a suitable pattern, make the first cut according to the plan. Follow the instructions of each pattern from the paragraph above. Put the log in the bar and make the first slide. It seems to be serious but easy to get. After cutting the first cut, check the slide whether you have done it in the right way or not. If everything is all right, then go for the next step. Step 4 Cut for the second time and continuously: Now attempt the second cut. The second cut will determine the quality of the cuts. Before putting the lumber in the mill, check out the miter bar so that you can follow the line each time. Step 5 Have the boards: After cutting the sides of the log, saw the log to get fine boards. Here, you should measure the log before making the boards. Go slowly while cutting the boards so that you can get clean boards without edges. Step 6 Process the boards: Now, process the boards to use them in further works. First, you have to use plains to sharpen the surface of the boards. Then, put the boards in the sun or open air. The boards will dry up naturally. After drying for a few days, you see some changes in the shapes of the boards. Some boards may be shrunken or bent. This possibility of shrunken depends on the quality of the wood. If you cut only the grains, then you may not have any changes in the shapes. Step 7 Finishing up: Clean up the Band saw after finishing cutting. After 30 minutes of cutting, check out the blade if it gets hurt. Write down the essential issues that you have found during the operation. The note will help you to see lumber next time. Bottom line: You should follow the safety measure while dealing with lumber in a band saw. Be familiar with the instructions of how to saw lumber with a bandsaw mill before attempting the cutting. Related Article: Best Horizontal Band Saw Use a Horizontal Band Saw 5/5 - (1 vote) Spread the love Post navigation ← Previous Post Next Post → About Us We love and care about you. Our team is putting maximum efforts to provide you the best functionalities. 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0.995792	Visit the Sistine Chapel 15 minutes before other tour groups and 1.15 hours before the general public This tour will allow you to focus on the biggest highlights of the Vatican See the tombs of the most important Popes in a special crypt beneath St. Peter's Basilica What to expect Those with limited time to explore the Vatican can't miss the Sistine Chapel and St. Peter’s Basilica. Until now, an express visit for these two highlights was impossible due to long lines and crowds. With our Exclusive Partner’s Early Access, a two hour long escorted visit to the Chapel and Basilica is a reality. As the first group to step inside with a 15-minute head start on other groups and a 1 hour and 15 minute head start on the general public, you’ll also experience the Sistine Chapel in the best conditions. Meet your tour escort just outside before official opening hours. You’ll notice the lines starting to form despite the fact the Museum doesn't open to the general public for another hour and 15 minutes. Even “Skip the Line” tour groups are already lining up. We’ll walk straight inside 15 minutes before everyone else, and use our head start to head straight for the Sistine Chapel, where we’ll be the first group to enter. On the way in, your tour escort will provide you with a description and then you are free to take in its beauty on your own. Inside Michelangelo’s magnificent chapel, the serene atmosphere created by the absence of crowds will give you the precious minutes to enjoy it as the Pope does. After you have seen the Creation of Adam and the Last Judgment, it’s time to move on to St. Peter’s. Your tour escort will lead you through the side access to the Basilica directly from the Sistine Chapel, avoiding the long lines that form outside. On the way over you’ll enjoy an introduction to the Basilica and the amazing sights you’ll encounter there. As you step inside, its beauty will blow you away. Here you’ll see Michelangelo's 'Pietà' and Bernini’s 96-foot-high baroque canopy. After you have explored the main level of the Basilica, your tour escort will lead you down to the Papal Crypts in the space between the 4th century Basilica and modern-day St. Peter’s. At the conclusion of the visit, your tour escort will lead you outside to Bernini’s architectural masterpiece: St. Peter’s Square! Read more COVID-19 information The following health and safety measures are in place, so you can relax and enjoy your experience. Visitor numbers are limited to reduce crowds The experience complies with government regulations Social distancing is enforced Areas frequented by visitors are regularly disinfected Hand sanitizers are provided for staff and visitors All gear/equipment is sanitised between use Visitors are required to bring and wear masks Guides and all other staff are required to wear masks Temperature screening is compulsory for all visitors Visitors over 18 must show their ID and proof of one of the following: a full vaccination or first vaccination (this requirement varies depending on the country) received at least 15 days prior, recovery from a COVID-19 infection in the past 6 months, or a negative result from a PCR or antigen test taken no more than 48 hours before the experience starts. This may also apply to those aged 12 and above Proof of COVID-19 vaccination or a negative result from a recent antigen or molecular test may be required, please check the local requirements before your visit. What's included Access to the Vatican Museums 15 minutes before other tour operators and 1 hour and 15 minutes before the general public Expert, English-speaking tour guide Skip-the-line entrance to St Peter's Basilica Visit of the Crypts beneath the Basilica What's not included Gratuities Hotel pick-up/drop-off Food/beverages Reduced price Children (6-18 years old): reduced price Infants (0-5 years old): free Where Viale Vaticano, 79-83, 00136 Roma RM, Italy Meeting point: At the bottom of the wide steps across the street from the entrance of the Vatican Museums. The steps are located between Caffè Vaticano and Hotel Alimandi Vaticano, on the corner of Viale Vaticano and Via Tunisi. City Wonders coordinators will be wearing blue City Wonders polo shirts or jackets to be easily recognizable at the meeting point. Open map What to remember This service ends at St. Peter's Square at around 09.30am. Extra measures may be implemented at some venues due to heightened global security. As a result, we may experience delays in getting through mandatory security checks when entering these venues. Extra measures may also restrict the size of bags that can be brought inside. To avoid disruptions or possible denied entry, we strongly suggest that you avoid bringing large purses, bags, or backpacks on your tour. The Vatican only permits very small bags, and specifically prohibits large bags, tripods, umbrellas, and backpacks. Any such items must be checked into the free luggage storage area. The group will not be able to wait for those who need to check their baggage. Gratuities to guides providing excellent service are appreciated. This tour goes straight to the Sistine Chapel with no bathroom or water break to give you as much time as possible in the chapel. Please plan accordingly. It is the responsibility of all visitors to be at the meeting point 15 minutes before departure. For help with meeting points or other urgent issues, please phone (0039) 06 8336 0561. Our Tour Operator coordinators will be wearing blue polo shirts or jackets with logo to be easily recognizable at the meeting point. This tour involves a fair amount of walking and stairs; comfortable shoes are recommended. We regret that we are unable to accommodate guests with wheelchairs or any impairments requiring special assistance. We are also unable to accommodate strollers or baby carriages on our group tours. Entrance into the Vatican requires a strict dress code. Knees and shoulders MUST be covered for both men and women. The Tour Operator cannot be held responsible for refused entry due to improper dress. Non-flash photography is permitted throughout the tour, except in the Sistine Chapel where talking and photography are prohibited. Guided visits inside Saint Peter’s Basilica are not permitted in the early morning due to mass being held. Instead your guide will deliver a full commentary from the Basilica porch. From there, you will be free to enjoy the artworks within the Basilica at your own pace, meeting your guide after the visit. Saint Peter’s Basilica is subject to last-minute closures for religious ceremonies. When this occurs, we're happy to offer customers an extended tour of the Vatican Museums. While we endeavour to tell tour groups ahead of time if there are any planned disruptions to the Basilica's opening hours, this is not always possible and in these cases we are unable to provide refunds or discounts. The Basilica Crypts are subject to last minute closures for religious ceremonies. In this case, the guide will endeavour to inform the tour group of when the crypts will be accessible and clients who wish to spend more time in the Basilica to wait for the crypt to reopen are welcome to do so. In this case, the tour will conclude on the Basilica porch overlooking St. Peter’s square. Read more When Operating days: Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday Meeting time: 07.05am Departure time: 07.20am Read more Provider City Wonders Booking fee Good news! No extra fees are applied to this booking. Cancellation policy Receive a 100% refund if you cancel up to 1 day before the experience begins. 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0.991859	The trial of Ghislaine Maxwell began on Monday, more than two years after the death of her alleged associate Jeffrey Epstein, with whom she had been charged with conspiring to sexually abuse minors. The trial is likely to be a media spectacle. The crimes of Jeffrey Epstein—and his death by suicide in August 2019—have spawned numerous books, documentaries and conspiracy theories. Duration:00:08:11 Here’s What COVID-19 Vaccine Makers Are Doing to Fight Omicron 11/30/2021 More On Nov. 26, the World Health Organization declared Omicron the latest COVID-19 variant of concern, and vaccine makers jumped on the news. Moderna quickly announced that it was developing an Omicron-specific vaccine, while continuing to study both a higher dose of its currently authorized shot, and a combination vaccine that protects against one of the previous SARS-CoV-2 variants. 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Duration:00:07:05 ‘Buy Now, Pay Later’ Apps Are Taking Over Holiday Shopping Season. Here’s What to Know About the Risks 11/29/2021 More As Black Friday approaches and the 2021 holiday shopping season kicks into high gear, "buy now, pay later," or BNPL, programs are having a resurgence in popularity. In recent months, major retailers like Amazon and Target have announced new partnerships with trendy BNPL startups like Afterpay, Affirm and Klarna, giving shoppers the point-of-sale option of splitting the cost of purchases into equal installment payments spaced out over a predetermined period of time. Duration:00:08:54 Visionary Louis Vuitton Fashion Designer Virgil Abloh Dies at 41 11/29/2021 More (NEW YORK) — Virgil Abloh, a leading designer whose groundbreaking fusions of streetwear and high couture made him one of the most celebrated tastemakers in fashion and beyond, has died of cancer. He was 41. 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0.982928	Having pavers as a material for whatever outdoor project you have planned can be beneficial in different ways. Whether it be for a pathway or a deck, many options come with pavers. As versatile and creative as pavers can be, the material also has its fair share of downfalls. Generally, the cons of pavers involve the material type and the installation process. There is, however, one issue that happens to pavers after installation. That would be the material turning green. This phenomenon usually occurs with a stone type of pavers caused by bacteria like algae or moss seeping into the stone. If left alone, the algae/moss will spread to nearby surfaces and eventually become a health hazard. How to Deal With Green Pavers Pavers turning green, as stated, are caused by algae and moss developing in the material. The reason behind algae and moss growing on pavers is excessive moisture seeping into the pavers and further developing in dark conditions. An option to avoid your pavers turning green is to have them and any furniture removed from areas exposed to moist or humid conditions. If this is not feasible, you will want to note the following solutions: Dry Out the Area The best way to deal with algae or moss on pavers is to remove them before further spreading. A safe and easy way to remove algae or moss is when the pavers are fully dry. If you attempt to remove them when there is still moisture in the area, it can result in spores released into the air during the process. You will want to limit spore movement as much as possible and expose the area to sunlight for direct drying. Another option for this would be to use a fan or heater safe for outdoor use. Sweep the Area Once the area/pavers are fully dry, the next step is to sweep the algae and moss away. You can remove as many algae and moss as possible using a deck brush or a push broom with stiff bristles. For more stubborn areas, you will want to use a plastic scraper. Use a Pressure Washer If the green substance is too minimal to be dried or swept away, the next option is to pressure wash the paving stones. A pressure washer can be an investment to make and is most often the solution to algae and moss on pavers. The downside to this method is that you may need to replenish the joint sand between the pavers after cleaning them. You also have the option to hire a professional for cleaning and sealing service. Use Vinegar or Bleach Using vinegar or bleach can be the quickest way to deal with algae and moss on pavers. One way to test this method is to mix water with white vinegar then have it sprayed on the affected pavers. After spraying, leave it for a few minutes and have any stubborn areas addressed with a deck brush or scrub brush. Following this process, you will want to have the area rinsed with water. If vinegar does not do the trick, the next thing to try is to mix a cup of bleach for each gallon of water. While the process is generally the same, the difference is that you will need to be heavier on the rinsing step. Use Commercial Products When vinegar or bleach don’t work for your affected pavers or if you want something different, there are many effective products you can select. The right product depends on how much algae and moss there is on the pavers. For pavers with mild algae and moss spread on them, a simple patio or deck wash-type of product used for general cleaning can help clear the algae and moss. As for stained hardscapes, choose a stain remover specifically for moss. Applying any of these products involves spraying them, leaving them for a few minutes, then scrubbing and rinsing away at the areas. What Wollongong Landscaping Can Do For You There may be different ways to avoid having your pavers turn green, but the best way to stop the phenomenon altogether is with a professional service group. By consulting with a professional service group on the best options for any paving project, you can gain quality services to meet any paver needs. One group that can provide this is Wollongong Landscaping. With Wollongong Landscaping, you can receive reliable customer service and quality options for any landscaping problem. Share on facebook Facebook Share on google Google+ Share on twitter Twitter Share on linkedin LinkedIn Share on pinterest Pinterest shaun.bong All Posts » PrevPreviousHow to Protect Your Deck & Patio from Termite Infestation Leave a Reply Cancel reply Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked * Comment Name * Email * Website Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. We are here to help Looking for competent landscape installers in Wollongong? contact us now We are Wollongong Landscaping, a locally-owned landscape and paving service in Wollongong, NSW for the past decade.
0.998846	Teenage is hard if there is no one to support and care. Some of the toughest challenges are faced by young girls during this time. For many, it is the time for the onset of severe hair loss that can cause hair thinning and even baldness. Proper care is important but some people are required to try a hair loss treatment. This article discusses why some young girls lose hair while many naturally have good hair. If you are a young girl with hair loss problem who wants to get strong hair, this topic is for you. Reasons for Hair Fall in Teenage Girls Here are some common causes of hair fall. · Stress: Taking too much stress can cause hair to fall. · Genetics: Some genetic factors can also be the reason. · Hormones: The body of a teenage girl rapidly changes and hormones also fluctuate during this time. Due to these changes, eating, lifestyle, and mood fluctuations also occur. That is why some issues such as acne and hair fall are common among young girls. · Medicine: Adults, as well as teenagers, can experience hair fall due to specific medications. These medications include the ones that disturb hormonal balance. Side effects of birth control pills include hair loss among others. · Poor Nutrition: Most of us are unaware of the great importance of our diet for the health of our hair. The truth is; hair needs some vital components and if we do not eat foods that contain those components, the hair can suffer. · Over-Styling: Some girls are used to make hairstyles that require ironing or other methods of heating the hair. Please note that the human hair is made of protein and it can get hurt if regularly exposed to a significant amount of heat. · Medical Condition: Different medical conditions can also cause abnormal hair loss. This often happens when a person suffers from a scalp unregulated diabetes, infection, an overactive or underactive thyroid, trichotillomania, or skin disorders. Fixing Teenage Hair Loss through Care Taking care is important to have healthy hair. If you are suffering from this problem, try to know the root causes. Fix those causes if you can or consult a professional. You can do the following to prevent hair loss and to get healthy hair: · Do not take any stress. · Regularly massage the scalp. · Eat foods that have omega-3s. · Eat balanced and healthy food. · Use oils and wash your hair regularly. · Do not heat or pull your hair regularly. · Take steps to balance your hormone levels. If mere care does not stop hair fall, you must consult a professional to avoid baldness and hair thinning. Latest Hair Loss Treatments for Girls Routine care is important but some people need more than care to combat hair fall. Some advanced hair loss treatment options can be useful if you do not get any results through care alone. Here are a number of techniques for your hair loss problem: · Oral Medications: People find it simple and easy to take oral medications to curb hair fall. Such medications do not always deliver the desired results. They deliver temporary results. · Topical Medications: Some topical medications are quite famous these days and people may get positive outcomes using them. The problem is; they can only deliver temporary results. · Low-Level Laser Therapy: This technique might be new to you but has been around for some time. Actually, it is a non-surgical and non-invasive treatment that does not cause major side effects. · Platelet-Rich Plasma Therapy: It is a non-surgical and minimally invasive treatment option for those who want to regrow more hair on any of the scalps. You have read some common reasons for hair loss in young girls and boys. It has also been discussed that proper care and advanced treatments can help fix hair fall. If you are a young girl who is fighting a hair fall problem, you should take proper care. You can get better results by trying hair loss treatment if routine care does not work for you. You can get in touch with a hair restoration professional in your town if you want to dig deeper into this topic. So find the reasons for your hair fall, take necessary steps, and punch hair loss problem in the face. Good luck with your war against terrorism of hair fall. Further Study · Hair Loss In Teens: Causes, Signs, and How to Treat It. Hair Guard: https://www.hairguard.com/teenage-hair-loss/
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0.999999	Related: Bendigo council meeting shut down after anti-mosque protesters storm meeting Listen to the full announcement at the bottom of this article.  BENDIGO city council has postponed its next meeting until after a proposed anti-mosque rally, announced a raft of new security measures and been given a reprieve from the state government on submitting its annual finances. The public will now have to submit written questions by noon on the day council sits to have them read out and will have to view the meeting on a large screen on the bottom floor of Town Hall.  Today’s announcements came in the wake of its last meeting, on September 16, which was aborted after more than 100 protesters forced councillors and executive staff to leave the building under police escort. That meeting was to be postponed until council was next due to sit, on October 7. But Mayor Peter Cox announced today that police had advised the meeting not be held until after a proposed anti-mosque rally to be held October 10. “After consultation with police we decided not to give the antagonists the opportunity to use the meeting as a publicity stunt,” Mayor Cox said.  The meeting will be now held on October 14 – seven weeks after council last held a complete meeting. The mayor said it frustrating that council could not get on with its job and conceded items of business were piling up.  “It’s going to a long meeting and the agenda will be very thick,” Mr Cox warned press of the October 14 meeting. “But there's only one matter that was urgent and that was the passing of our final financial accounts for the year – and we've got an extension to extend that into October rather than the end of September for them to be submitted to the state government. “All other matters – and there are a lot of planning matters and it’s very disappointing for those applicants that have put in applications that have to be considered by council – we'll move on all of those matters on the 14th.”  That meeting will also see the city roll out its new security measures. At a press conference the day following last month’s aborted meeting, the mayor said he was considering exercising his powers as chair to have people acting disruptively in meetings removed and potentially fined.  But Mayor Cox said that situation could be avoided by today’s announcement.  He said the security measures would be temporary and hoped that question time could go back to normal and the public sit in on meetings again before Christmas.  A similar rally and counter-rally held late August drew more than 600 people and ended in confrontations which police broke up with pepper spray.  That caused the cancellation of a food and wine festival which was scheduled to be held October 10 – the same day as the proposed anti-mosque rally. City planners said the cancelled festival could cost the local economy more than $500,000.   /images/transform/v1/crop/frm/Gt8HmW8KEQEvYrMPayTnMA/640b9be0-a213-4ef8-998b-796381415c52.jpg/r3_0_1198_675_w1200_h678_fmax.jpg October 1 2015 - 1:03PM Council postpones meeting due to anti-mosque rally Joseph Hinchliffe Local News Comments Mayor Peter Cox is escorted from council chambers by police after protesters forced him to cancel the last Bendigo City Council meeting. Related: Bendigo council meeting shut down after anti-mosque protesters storm meeting Listen to the full announcement at the bottom of this article. BENDIGO city council has postponed its next meeting until after a proposed anti-mosque rally, announced a raft of new security measures and been given a reprieve from the state government on submitting its annual finances. The public will now have to submit written questions by noon on the day council sits to have them read out and will have to view the meeting on a large screen on the bottom floor of Town Hall. Today’s announcements came in the wake of its last meeting, on September 16, which was aborted after more than 100 protesters forced councillors and executive staff to leave the building under police escort. That meeting was to be postponed until council was next due to sit, on October 7. But Mayor Peter Cox announced today that police had advised the meeting not be held until after a proposed anti-mosque rally to be held October 10. “After consultation with police we decided not to give the antagonists the opportunity to use the meeting as a publicity stunt,” Mayor Cox said. The meeting will be now held on October 14 – seven weeks after council last held a complete meeting. The mayor said it frustrating that council could not get on with its job and conceded items of business were piling up. “It’s going to a long meeting and the agenda will be very thick,” Mr Cox warned press of the October 14 meeting. “But there's only one matter that was urgent and that was the passing of our final financial accounts for the year – and we've got an extension to extend that into October rather than the end of September for them to be submitted to the state government. “All other matters – and there are a lot of planning matters and it’s very disappointing for those applicants that have put in applications that have to be considered by council – we'll move on all of those matters on the 14th.” That meeting will also see the city roll out its new security measures. At a press conference the day following last month’s aborted meeting, the mayor said he was considering exercising his powers as chair to have people acting disruptively in meetings removed and potentially fined. But Mayor Cox said that situation could be avoided by today’s announcement. He said the security measures would be temporary and hoped that question time could go back to normal and the public sit in on meetings again before Christmas. A similar rally and counter-rally held late August drew more than 600 people and ended in confrontations which police broke up with pepper spray. That caused the cancellation of a food and wine festival which was scheduled to be held October 10 – the same day as the proposed anti-mosque rally. City planners said the cancelled festival could cost the local economy more than $500,000. 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0.999988	The COVID-19 outbreak is currently less severe in British Columbia than in Canada's two largest provinces. The reasons why are part preparation and part luck, say public health experts. Social Sharing Luck and timing are part of the equation — but leadership at the top could also play a role Justin McElroy · CBC News · Posted: Apr 06, 2020 6:05 PM PT \| Last Updated: February 2 Confirmed cases of COVID-19 in British Columbia have increased at a slow rate over the past two weeks, but have gone up dramatically in Quebec and Ontario. (Justin McElroy/CBC News) comments The COVID-19 outbreak is currently more severe in Canada's two largest provinces than it is in British Columbia. That's not opinion; it's fact. Whether you go by confirmed cases or hospitalizations, by raw numbers or a per capita comparison, the virus has steadily grown in Ontario and Quebec. But in B.C., hospitalizations and active cases have been flat for the last week. The disease growth curve, at least at this point, has been flattened. So, what's the explanation? "It's very hard to know exactly why," said B.C.'s chief medical health officer, Dr. Bonnie Henry, when asked about the difference on Monday. "Some parts of it are luck, and some parts of it are being prepared." INTERACTIVE Coronavirus tracker: The cases, hospitalizations and vaccinations in your area Luck and early preparation flattening B.C.'s COVID-19 curve, but officials urge residents to 'not let up' It's undoubtedly true that B.C. was able to learn from having a few isolated cases in January and February. It's also true the province has been lucky not to have a viral "super-spreader," as has been the case in other places. However, there's a little bit more to it than that. Preparation, preparation, preparation Dr. David Fisman, an epidemiology professor at the University of Toronto, said British Columbia's institutions for disease control have long been a model for the rest of the country. "You've got a functioning public health system, with integration of lab and epidemiology and service in British Columbia," he said. "Here in Ontario, we have had difficulties with public health leadership culture for a long time." Fisman says B.C. was able to, as Henry put it, "take a lot of measures early" because it had the lines of communication to quickly scale up a unified response relatively early. INTERACTIVE Are Canada's efforts to flatten the curve working? COVID-19 in British Columbia by the numbers It meant a unified response and messaging to the public were underway before COVID-19 was on the radar for many politicians. Whereas in Ontario, it took a little longer for everyone to get on the same page. Ontario Premier Doug Ford "has actually stepped up as a leader," said Fisman. "[But] one has to realize Doug Ford's not a public health physician. He's not a microbiologist, and he's not an epidemiologist. So, he's very much dependent on the advice he's given." Timing of spring break One way that played out was over spring break. On March 12, B.C. recommended against all non-essential travel outside of Canada, while Ford told families to "go away" and "have fun" during the week-long holiday. "You could see this coming," said Fisman. "There was talk in the epidemiology field that we really can't have a million people return to Ontario from places with unfettered COVID transmission. It's gonna be a very bad thing for us, but we didn't use that opportunity." COVID-19 in Quebec: With caution, Legault says we can 'see light at the end of the tunnel' At the same time, British Columbia was fortunate that the scheduled spring break for students was later than in other jurisdictions — allowing health officials to adapt. "We learned from Quebec," said Henry. "Their March break was two weeks earlier than ours, and people were coming back … from places like France, and coming home from March break and getting sick." WATCH \| Why B.C. is flattening the curve: Avoiding complacency in B.C. as curve starts to flatten 2 years ago 1:47 Health officials in B.C. are urging residents not to become complacent about physical distancing even though the province’s curve for COVID-19 cases appears to be flattening. 1:47 Henry's role Fisman also credited B.C. for putting in an early measure to stop health-care workers from working at multiple care homes, which was a big factor in preventing community transmission. But ultimately he believes a big part of B.C.'s fortune comes from the person who speaks to British Columbians at every news conference. "Bonnie Henry stays at press conferences and answers the questions … and doesn't shade the truth. She's frank and honest and emotional with people," he said. "And given that part of this response depends on being altruistic and doing the right thing to help other people who we will never meet, having a leader who can articulate how we're all in this together and make a convincing case for why you need to do your part … is very important." Playing 'the hand we're dealt' Henry's direct experience in overseeing Toronto's SARS and Canada's H1N1 outbreaks is the type of background that's impossible to quantify in a situation like this. Henry herself doesn't mention it at news conferences. "Part of [curve-flattening] was the system we had in place to detect cases … and part of it was luck, and part of it was timing," she said. But Fisman believes Henry's experience has been crucial. "We all play the hand we're dealt. [British Columbia] has played the hand they've been dealt very, very well. And you can see it in the numbers," he said. "Ontario has played the hand that it's dealt in a way that is not the United States … but I think Ontario is lagging." ABOUT THE AUTHOR Justin McElroy @j_mcelroy Justin is the Municipal Affairs Reporter for CBC Vancouver, covering local political stories throughout British Columbia. 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0.998501	Cboe Options Exchange plans to extend global trading hours (GTH) for S&P 500® Index (SPX® and SPXW) options and Cboe Volatility Index® (VIX® Index) options to nearly 24 hours a day, five days a week, beginning November 21, 2021, subject to regulatory review. The expanded trading hours will bring a number of benefits to market participants around the world. Below, we explore some of those benefits and explain why participants may want to join the GTH crowd. Manage Risk Around the Clock Trade or hedge broad stock market and global equity volatility conveniently across all time zones, day and night with Cboe Options Exchange’s extended global trading hours (GTH) for SPX and VIX options to nearly 24 hours a day, five days a week (24x5). With extended GTH, market participants will gain more convenience, more access and more opportunities to react to market moving events and access U.S. index options from any time zone. Here are three reasons to explore extended GTH for SPX and VIX options: 1. High Volume During GTH Following Major News Events Historically, dates with the highest volumes during GTH sessions have been linked to major news events. GTH enable market participants to trade their view of the market immediately, even when news breaks well before or after regular U.S. trading hours. Volatility never sleeps, and neither do market-moving headlines. 2020 Dates with the Largest Volumes During GTH Source: Cboe Global Markets The VIX Index rose 504% over the course of 20 trading days with a daily closing value of 13.68 on February 14, 2020 and a daily closing value of 82.69 on March 16, 2020. Trading volume for VIX futures exceeded 117,000 contracts during GTH sessions between February 26, 2020 and March 6, 2020 as concerns about the COVID-19 pandemic increased. Day traders igniting frenzied buying into heavily shorted stocks, concerns centered around fiscal stimulus measures and September syndrome all led to the highest significant volume during 2021. After a significant rise of 61.6% on January 27, 2021, the VIX Index rose more than 20% on July 19, 2021 (22%) and September 20, 2021 (23.5%). 2021 Dates (Through October 2021) with Largest Volumes in GTH Source: Cboe Global Markets The expanded GTH enables market participants to express their views of market-making events as they are happening and adjust SPX and VIX options positions around the clock. 2. Price Movements During GTH Many market participants may assume that the majority of price movements happen during U.S. trading hours, but according to Professor Oleg Bondarenko of the University of Illinois Chicago, that is not always the case. Professor Bondarenko’s research on U.S. stock market performance during trading hours throughout the day found that four hours during the trading day (outside of U.S. regular trading hours) accounted for the entire average market return, uncertainty reflected by VIX futures prices rose overnight and fell around the European market open and the results of Professor Bondarenkos’ research were stronger during the 2020 COVID-19 crisis. S&P 500 Index Performance by Hour of Day Source: Screenshot from paper on Market Return by Bondarenko and Murayev (Aug. 25, 2021) The 24x5 trading model makes it possible for global market participants to trade Cboe’s exclusively U.S.-listed VIX and SPX options during their local trading day around the clock and will allow U.S. market participants to capitalize on price movements during GTH. 3. Multinational Exposure for the S&P 500 Index Index exposure to different geographic areas is important to investors who manage equity risk around the clock. As global trading has increased in recent decades, the S&P 500 Index and VIX Index have become multi-national indices. As shown in the chart below, a 2019 report by S&P Dow Jones Indices estimated that companies in the S&P 500 Index make 57.1% of their sales to U.S. customers and 42.9% to non-U.S. customers. S&P 500 Index Companies Sales by Region Source: S&P Dow Jones Indices Report on S&P 500 Global Sales (August 2019) The report also showed that a majority of the sales in three S&P 500 Index sectors – Information Technology (58.2%), Materials (56.8%) and Energy (51.3%) – were to non-U.S. customers. Non-U.S. Sales as a Percentage of Total Sales by Sector Source: S&P Dow Jones Indices Report on S&P 500 Global Sales (August 2019) Additionally, three S&P 500 Index sectors each accounted for more than 14% of the total non-U.S. sales – Consumer Staples (17.5%), Industrials (14.7%) and Information Technology (14.5%). Sector Sales as a Percentage of Total Non-U.S. Sales Source: S&P Dow Jones Indices Report on S&P 500 Global Sales (August 2019) S&P 500 Index options and VIX options may be useful and valuable tools for investors who wish to manage their multinational equity exposure. Additional Resources All About 24x5 Wilshire Whitepaper: Global Option-Writing Strategies to Reduce Risk and Enhance Income CFA Institute Research Foundation Whitepaper: The VIX Index and Volatility-Based Global Indexes and Trading Instruments – A Guide to Investment and Trading Features (2020) Options Education Additional Whitepapers Cboe Indices There are important risks associated with transacting in any of the Cboe Company products discussed here. Before engaging in any transactions in those products, it is important for market participants to carefully review the disclosures and disclaimers contained at https://www.cboe.com/options_futures_disclaimers
0.959388	Learn more about the government’s Canada Emergency Business Account – including important repayment info Updated: June 30, 2021 4 min read Did your small or not-for-profit business apply for the Canada Emergency Business Account (CEBA) loan by the June 30, 2021 deadline? Then next on your list is a repayment plan. Here’s what you need to know. CEBA Q&A 1. What is CEBA? Here are the main details: The program offers a loan of $60,000 interest-free until December 31, 2022 The purpose of the loan is to help you pay for operating costs that you’re not able to defer as a result of COVID-19 You are not required to make principal payments until December 31, 2022 Repaying $40,000 of the loan principal on or before December 31, 2022 will result in loan forgiveness of the remaining $20,000 2. When do I have to repay my CEBA loan? If you have not repaid the loan by December 31, 2022, the remaining balance will be converted to a 3-year term loan with an annual interest rate of 5% per annum, effective January 1, 2023. You must repay the full balance no later than December 31, 2025. 3. I have applied for CEBA. How can I inquire about the status of my application? If you have already applied for CEBA: You can check the status of your CEBA loan application online at& https://status-statut.ceba-cuec.ca/. Please wait 5-7 business days after submitting your application before checking the status. You may contact the CEBA Call Centre at 1-888-324-4201. You will be asked to leave a call back number. An agent will return your call between Monday and Friday from 7:00am-6:00pm PST and can address the following types of questions: What is the status of my application? Why was my application declined? Why was my submitted document rejected? Be sure to have your CRA business number on hand. The CEBA Call Centre is experiencing significant call volumes. As a result, a return call may take up to seven business days.
0.994935	Only clients with booked sessions and who have not travelled within 14 days or been in contact with anyone who is suspected to have COVID-19 or who has travelled within 14 days, may enter the facility If a client suspects they might have COVID-19 or are experiencing ANY symptoms, they are asked to cancel their session and rebook once they are well a minimum of 14 days after. No cancellation fee will be assessed Clients must bring a personal water bottle; no filling stations will be made available Clients will not be permitted to use washroom facilities unless absolutely necessary Clients must enter via automatic doors and sanitize hands Clients must check-in with client services host upon arrival Parents/Guardians must wait for children outside the facility away from the automatic doors Inside the facility, clients must respect social distancing and wear masks when not training Off-Ice Clients Clients may enter the facility no earlier than 5 minutes before a scheduled session It is recommended that clients come dressed and ready for their session Clients are to proceed directly to their assigned studio/area after check-in by using the left hallway when facing the client services desk Although each studio/area is sanitized thoroughly after each use, sanitizing wipes and sprays are available in each studio/area. A good rule of thumb is: “If you touch it – wipe it” It is prohibited to move equipment from one studio/area to another Clients are asked to respect the bookings times as staff must have sufficient time to sanitize between sessions Clients are asked to sanitize hands before entering and leaving an area or touching any high contact areas Clients are to immediately exit the facility upon completion of their session using the same hallway On-Ice Clients Clients may enter the facility no earlier than 15 minutes before a scheduled session Clients are to proceed directly to their assigned area after check-in by using the right hallway when facing the client services desk Capacity will be restricted to 10 people on the ice Clients are asked to maintain a minimum of 6 feet between themselves and coaches Each client must have their own pre-filled water bottle as filling stations will not be available Clients must enter the facility as fully dressed as possible (Players may only carry; skates, gloves, helmet and stick) Only goalies may enter the facility with a bag. When on ice, belongings must be in their bag and the bag fully closed Change rooms will be restricted to 4 clients per room. (If assistance is needed, a parent/guardian may enter to tie skates, etc... and immediately exit) Clients are asked to maintain social distancing in change room. Shower and washroom facilities will not be available in the change rooms After the scheduled ice session, clients are asked to only take off the minimum amount of equipment and exit the changeroom and facility immediately so that the rooms can be sanitized between sessions (If assistance is needed, a parent/guardian may enter once the session is finished and exit immediately)
0.999976	'Sheriff's office, safe to come out': Moment Michigan school shooter, 15, tried to lure screaming students out of locked classroom after killing three and wounding six, including a teacher, before they jumped out of window to escape Chris Cuomo is SUSPENDED indefinitely by CNN after network says it didn't realize how deeply involved star was in efforts to defend brother Andrew from sex pest claims MEGHAN MCCAIN: If CNN president Jeff Zucker won't fire Chris Cuomo for lying about how he targeted his sex pest brother's accusers then HE should be the one under investigation NYC man was released without bail after 'robbing female subway passenger at knifepoint' to 'steal iPhone from another passenger' just HOURS later Biden's nationwide vaccine mandate on healthcare workers is BLOCKED: President's COVID rules dealt another blow after Kentucky judge suspended orders on federal contractors in Kentucky, Ohio and Tennessee Biden administration is considering forcing all travelers returning to the US to quarantine for SEVEN DAYS to curb spread of COVID omicron variant - and may FINE people who flout it WHO recommends over-60s 'postpone travel' due to Omicron fears as CDC director says US is increasing COVID testing at four US airports in effort to stop spread CNN, ABC, and more than a dozen media companies file legal brief JOINING Steve Bannon's bid to lift the DOJ's order stopping him sharing 1,000 files in his contempt of Congress case Ghislaine Maxwell's first accuser 'Jane' says Ghislaine watched as Epstein made her 'straddle his face and pinch his nipples' when she was 14-years-old Prince Andrew's car crash Newsnight interview with Emily Maitlis is evidence of his guilt, lawyers tell Ghislaine Maxwell trial 'You said she had large breasts, right?' Ghislaine Maxwell's defense grills Lolita Express pilot over his cockpit meeting with 'underage' accuser 'Jane' - and he responds: 'She was a mature woman with piercing powder blue eyes' Lovely Bones author Alice Sebold FINALLY apologizes to man she accused of rape in 1981 in a Medium post - seven DAYS after he was exonerated - and years after she made MILLIONS off back of the story More than HALF of US employers have or will require COVID-19 vaccine mandates, survey finds FDA advisory committee recommends emergency use authorization of Merck's experimental drug - the first pill to treat COVID-19 Dr Oz announces he is running for US Senate as a Republican in Pennsylvania to 'help us heal' because we are 'angry at the government and each other' Lauren Boebert compared Ilhan Omar to a terrorist at ANOTHER event in September and joked she felt safe with the 'Jihad Squad' member in an elevator because she 'didn't have a backpack and wasn't running' Missouri-born exotic dancer, activist and French Resistance member Josephine Baker becomes the first black woman and only sixth woman ever to be granted a tomb in the Pantheon in Paris Matthew McConaughey reveals how his Australian gap year shaped him as a person after his pampered upbringing in Texas 'We talk all the time and we prioritize each other': Priyanka Chopra explains how she keeps her long-distance marriage to Nick Jonas happy Kyle Rittenhouse pulls out of course at Arizona State University after liberal students demanded he be kicked off campus despite jury acquitting him on murder charges 'They called Dominic to the stand hoping he would lie': Rittenhouse claims he knew the 'state didn't have a case' when they called friend who bought his gun to the stand - and takes another swipe at his ex lawyer who he brands 'insane' US Seventh Fleet's commander calls for MORE aircraft carriers in Pacific to deter China and Russia and make them realize 'today is not the day' to start a conflict South Carolina mother wins $10m from Walmart after she stepped on rusty nail in store and had to endure THREE separate amputations that resulted in her losing her right leg above the knee World's richest man Elon Musk warns of SpaceX 'bankruptcy' unless Starship engine 'production crisis' for missions to Mars is solved Previous Next Oregon nurse who bragged on TikTok about breaking COVID restrictions and not wearing a mask claims she has taken a leave of absence from her job to pursue a career in journalism Oregon nurse, Ashley Grames, is no longer working at Salem Health hospital She was initially placed on administrative leave from her job after she shared TikTok video bragging about defying COVID-19 safety guidelines last month In clip Grames confessed to not taking COVID precautions like wearing a mask Grames' video and her TikTok profile have both been deleted from TikTok but the clip was saved and then reshared by other users Her employer, Salem Health, said Monday that Grames no longer works at facility On Tuesday, Grames claimed that she took a 'leave of absence' from her position She then said in the Facebook post that she is now pursing a career in journalism By Valerie Edwards For Dailymail.com Published: 15:54 EST, 8 December 2020 \| Updated: 16:49 EST, 8 December 2020 e-mail 253 shares 110 View comments An Oregon nurse who was placed on administrative leave after she posted a TikTok video that made fun of basic measures designed to curb the spread of coronavirus has claimed she took a leave of absence from her hospital job to pursue a career in journalism. The video was originally posted by user @Loveiskind05 and showed a nurse dressed in scrubs complete with a stethoscope in what appeared to be a hospital break room with the caption: 'When my coworkers find out I still travel, don't wear a mask when I'm out and let my kids have play dates.' The nurse was later identified as Ashley Grames, who became a Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA) in October 2010 and has been a Registered Nurse (RN) since 2015 according to online records. Salem Health hospital could not immediately be reached for comment, but a spokesperson told BuzzFeed on Monday that Grames was no longer employed at the facility. 'The nurse in question is no longer employed with Salem Health,' the spokesperson said without confirming if Grames had been fired. However, Grames revealed on her Facebook page that she wasn't fired at all. Scroll down for video Oregon nurse, Ashley Grames (pictured), who was placed on administrative leave after she posted a TikTok video that made fun of basic measures designed to curb the spread of coronavirus has claimed she took a leave of absence from her job to pursue a journalism career In the post, Grames claimed Salem Health hospital hadn't fired her despite them launching an investigation into her TikTok video. She said that she instead took a leave of absence Grames first started the post by writing: 'I just want thank all of my friends, fans, colleagues and fellow Nurses and a few of my news anchor friends for supporting me through out this whole ordeal.' She then claimed Salem Health hospital hadn't fired her despite them launching an investigation into her TikTok video. 'I would like to set the record straight, I was not terminated; I took a leave of absence. I am focusing on the next chapter in my life which is going back to school,' Grames said. RELATED ARTICLES Previous 1 Next Joe Biden promises 100 million shots of vaccine in his first... Pfizer is working on new form of its coronavirus jab that... Share this article Share 'I would Like to pursue a career in Journalism and eventually become an Investigative Reporter and maybe even a News Anchor. That has always been my dream from day one,' she wrote. Grames' original video made headlines toward the end of November and has since been deleted and it also appears that she deleted her TikTok. However another user made a copy of it and reposted it on their profile as a duet. 'Imagine being an oncology nurse during a pandemic and bragging about not taking precautions,' that user wrote. Grames' (right) original video made headlines toward the end of November and has since been deleted and it also appears that she deleted her TikTok. However another user (left) made a copy of it and reposted it on their profile as a duet The clip showed Ashley Grames confessing to not taking COVID precautions The video, which was posted to TikTok, shocked users who then sought to identify her The nurses' employer shared their concern about the video and attempted to reassure people in a statement made on the company's Facebook page The caption that the nurse travels, doesn't wear a mask and lets her kids have play dates goes directly against guidelines from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) aimed at stopping the spread of the virus. The CDC suggests less travel, wearing masks around others when social distancing is not possible and avoiding gatherings with people outside your household. Shortly after the video was released, viewers reached out to Salem Health. Although the company did not name Grames as the nurse involved, they did say that a staff member had been 'placed on administrative leave pending an investigation.' A statement from the hospital read: 'A nurse employed with Salem Health posted a video on social media which displayed cavalier disregard for the seriousness of this pandemic and her indifference towards physical distancing and masking outside of work. 'Salem Health believes we all need to do our part to protect the vulnerable and stop the rapid spread of COVID-19. 'This includes requiring staff, patients and visitors to follow guidance from the CDC and others about mask wearing and social distancing. 'The COVID pandemic is serious and requires a serious response. And at Salem Health we are very serious about our approach to COVID.' 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0.942017	Imogen Anthony hints she has a new boyfriend after her shock split from Kyle Sandilands \| Daily Mail Online Home U.K. News Sports U.S. Showbiz Australia Femail Health Science Money Video Travel Shop DailyMailTV Headlines The Masked Singer USA DWTS Kim Kardashian Billie Eilish Taylor Swift U.K. Showbiz Headlines Video Games My Profile Logout Login Privacy Policy Feedback Tuesday, Nov 30th 2021 10PM 43°F 1AM 42°F 5-Day Forecast Advertisement 'Sheriff's office, safe to come out': Moment Michigan school shooter, 15, tried to lure screaming students out of locked classroom after killing three and wounding six, including a teacher, before they jumped out of window to escape Chris Cuomo is SUSPENDED indefinitely by CNN after network says it didn't realize how deeply involved star was in efforts to defend brother Andrew from sex pest claims MEGHAN MCCAIN: If CNN president Jeff Zucker won't fire Chris Cuomo for lying about how he targeted his sex pest brother's accusers then HE should be the one under investigation Biden's nationwide vaccine mandate on healthcare workers is BLOCKED: President's COVID rules dealt another blow after Kentucky judge suspended orders on federal contractors in Kentucky, Ohio and Tennessee NYC man was released without bail after 'robbing female subway passenger at knifepoint' to 'steal iPhone from another passenger' just HOURS later WHO recommends over-60s 'postpone travel' due to Omicron fears as CDC director says US is increasing COVID testing at four US airports in effort to stop spread CNN, ABC, and more than a dozen media companies file legal brief JOINING Steve Bannon's bid to lift the DOJ's order stopping him sharing 1,000 files in his contempt of Congress case Biden administration is considering forcing all travelers returning to the US to quarantine for SEVEN DAYS to curb spread of COVID omicron variant - and may FINE people who flout it More than HALF of US employers have or will require COVID-19 vaccine mandates, survey finds FDA advisory committee recommends emergency use authorization of Merck's experimental drug - the first pill to treat COVID-19 Ilhan Omar says Lauren Boebert once asked her if she should register as a 'foreign agent' and plays voicemail calling her a 'sand n-word b** in press conference on 'Jihad Squad' attacks Brian Laundrie's parents are SELLING their Florida home which was besieged by journalists and Gabby Petito supporters: 'For Sale' sign put up days after it was revealed Laundrie shot himself dead 'We talk all the time and we prioritize each other': Priyanka Chopra explains how she keeps her long-distance marriage to Nick Jonas happy Fauci's a big shot! 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But it appears Imogen Anthony may have found love once again, as on Christmas Day the 29-year-old shared a string of intimate videos alongside a mystery tattooed hunk. 'For freedom is the greatest gift of all,' she captioned the barely-clothed footage, with a now-deleted hashtag which read: 'he gonna kill me.' Moving on: Imogen Anthony appears to have found love once again, following her shock split from radio host Kyle Sandilands in mid-2019. Pictured: The pair in happier times in 2017 One of the videos featured Imogen wearing nothing but a string blue bikini, as a mystery bearded man wrapped his arms around her to play with her blonde locks. RELATED ARTICLES Previous 1 Next Imogen Anthony hints that she has a new boyfriend... more... Tegan Kynaston cuddles up to her boyfriend Kyle Sandilands... Kyle Sandilands' ex Imogen Anthony takes ANOTHER thinly... Showing him what he's missing! Kyle Sandilands' ex Imogen... Share this article Share While she kept his face completely concealed, his muscular shoulders were on full display and featured a distinct tattoo that curled around close to his neck. Another video showed Imogen affectionately rubbing her face against the same inked man's body, as she gazed at the camera with a telling smile on her face. Cryptic: One of the videos featured Imogen wearing nothing but a string blue bikini, as a mystery bearded man wrapped his arms around her back to play with her hair Bizarre: 'For freedom is the greatest gift of all,' she wrote alongside the barely-clothed snaps, with a now-deleted hashtag which read: 'he gonna kill me' Cute: Another video showed Imogen affectionately rubbing her face against the same inked man's body, as she gazed at the camera with a telling smile on her face A third post showed Imogen wearing a balaclava while riding a horse completely topless, with the mystery gentleman holding on to the stallion's rein. Adding more fuel to the fire, Imogen had shared a similar cryptic post two weeks earlier - as she captioned a picture of herself wearing a thong captioned with the words 'you + me.' Daily Mail Australia have contacted Imogen for further comment. The Australian influencer split from radio host Kyle, 49, in mid-2019. While their breakup appeared to be amicable at the time, she later accused Kyle of sending her mixed messages in a cryptic post on Instagram back in May. She claimed she had been 'led astray for months' and encouraged to 'stay silent' about the circumstances of their rift. The plot thickens: A third post showed Imogen riding a gorgeous horse completely topless while wearing a balaclava, while the mystery gentleman held onto the horse's rein Intriguing: Adding more fuel to the fire, Imogen had shared a similar cryptic post two weeks earlier - as she captioned a picture of herself wearing a thong captioned with the words 'you + me' 'While I have stayed silent and been asked to do so, others have been able to say and do what they want, and that hurts...' she wrote at the time. She added: 'Everything I have said has been the truth or what I was told directly.' Meanwhile, Kyle debuted his relationship with his former personal assistant Tegan Kynaston on New Year's Eve. He had announced his split from Imogen on November 5 after eight years of dating, revealing they had not been living together for 'quite some time'. 'We haven't been with each other for quite a few months now. Unfortunately it's run its course,' he said on The Kyle and Jackie O Show at the time. Going public: Kyle debuted his relationship with his former personal assistant, Tegan Kynaston (pictured) on New Year's Eve Advertisement Share or comment on this article: Imogen Anthony hints she has a new boyfriend after her shock split from Kyle Sandilands e-mail Comments 1 Share what you think Newest Oldest Best rated Worst rated View all The comments below have been moderated in advance. View all The views expressed in the contents above are those of our users and do not necessarily reflect the views of MailOnline. We are no longer accepting comments on this article. 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Halle Berry celebrates directorial debut Bruised becoming Netflix's number one film of the week as she dances around with a drink Larsa Pippen slammed for 'trying to be the new Kim Kardashian' in Real Housewives of Miami trailer... which also stars Martina Navratilova's wife Selena Gomez slams troll who criticized her for sharing a drinking 'joke' on TikTok... after singer had a kidney transplant in 2017 90 Day Fiance star Evelyn Cormier accuses husband David Vazquez Zermeno of 'mental and emotional abuse'... after shock divorce news Katie Holmes shields herself from the chilly temperatures in white windbreaker jacket as she braves chilly NYC in casual style These RÉDUIT beauty devices that promise injectable-grade results - and count Victoria Beckham as a fan - are reduced by up to 35% this week Promoted Juno Temple and Miles Teller prepare to get in character as they arrive on set of miniseries The Offer about backstage drama on The Godfather Johnny Depp's daughter Lily-Rose Depp goes bra-free as she models a sheer top while walking with French rapper beau Yassine Stein Actor Tommy Lane who appeared in Shaft and Live and Let Die has died at 83 in Florida after battle with COPD Kendall Jenner's 818 Tequila launches limited-edition merchandise to help support 'sustainability efforts' and 'rural Mexican communities' Advertisement Rihanna looks sensational in plunging white mini dress and blazer as she accepts her National Hero insignia at Barbados Republican celebrations in Bridgetown And Just Like That first official trailer! Carrie kisses Mr Big, Miranda talks 'roads not taken' and Charlotte holds hands with Harry: 'The future is unwritten' Aaron Carter SPLITS from fiancée Melanie Martin ONE WEEK after she gave birth to their son Prince Singer took to Twitter with a host of allegations against his former flame 'It's like wearing nothing at all... but I'm supported!' Amazon shoppers rave about how comfortable this wire-free bra is - and it's been reduced from $44 to as little as $16.99 Promoted Squid Game star Park Hae-soo signs on to star in the Korean adaptation of Netflix's Money Heist 'I wished our skins matched sometimes': Sandra Bullock reflects on raising her adopted African-American kids and notes it would be 'easier on how people approach us' Nicolas Cage cast as DRACULA in movie starring Nicholas Hoult as vampire's bug-eating protege Renfield Reigning Miss Kentucky easily beats trans contestant Miss Nevada and PTSD-suffering Air Force officer to win 'wokest' Miss USA House of Gucci director Ridley Scott defends Lady Gaga-led film, insisting it tried to be 'respectful' and 'factual' - and calls Gucci family's criticism 'alarmingly insulting' Ansel Elgort and Rachel Zegler dazzle as Tony and Maria as they take to the fire escape in FIRST LOOK at West Side Story's iconic love song Tonight Hamilton's Anthony Ramos and Jasmine Cephas Jones 'SPLIT' after viral TikTok video sparks rumors he cheated Emily Ratajkowski models a leather mini dress under a long coat as she plugs her 'empowering' book about 'the cult of beauty' while in London Jessa Duggar, 29, celebrates anniversary with husband Ben Seewald by recreating an old romantic snap with their four kids - as her brother Josh's child porn trial gets underway Khloe Kardashian flashes her toned legs in a bodysuit... after ex Tristan Thompson is heckled at a basketball game about his link to the pinup It's her 'monthiversary'! Paris Hilton celebrates 30 days of marriage to Carter Reum as she shares new wedding photo: 'I'm so proud to be yours' Advertisement Dr Oz announces he is running for the US Senate as a Republican in Pennsylvania to 'help us heal' because we are 'angry at the government and each other' The Matrix Resurrections stars Keanu Reeves and Carrie-Anne Moss cuddle up as they discuss 20-year effortless connection: 'It is like a soul friendship' Kristen Stewart pairs a bomber jacket with Justin Bieber's Drew slippers in NYC... after release of her Princess Diana biopic Spencer Tamra Judge tells ex-best friend Shannon Beador to 'STFU you victim-liar' after RHOC star said she's 'not engaging' in feud Jen Shah's assistant Stuart Smith is pictured for first time after flipping on the RHOSLC star by changing his plea to GUILTY in $5m telemarketing scam Chicago cop testifies Jussie Smollett told him one of his attackers was WHITE - after actor's lawyers claimed black brothers who beat him were 'criminals' trying to frame him Kris Jenner is every inch the proud momager as she snaps photos of daughter Kylie's window display at Harrods in London Kim Kardashian to be honored with the Fashion Icon Award at upcoming 2021 People's Choice Awards star 'will be honored for single-handedly transforming industry' Judas And The Black Messiah star LaKeith Stanfield showcases musical talent as he shares audition video for 2019 Cats film... and reveals he lost role to Jason Derulo Emily Ratajkowski celebrates her book tour with pouty selfie and a night of 'intimate' conversations about 'empowerment' Advertisement What an honor! Cate Blanchett is 'absolutely chuffed' to be Adele's fashion muse Chrishell Stause laughs it up with Selling Sunset co-star Emma Hernan... after revealing how she felt about Justin Hartley remarrying THREE months after divorce Rachel Brosnahan's Midge desperately tries to salvage her standup career after the fallout from her firing in new trailer for The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel Beyoncé releases star-studded new advert for Halls Of Ivy drop featuring Natalia Bryant and Reese Witherspoon's daughter Ava Phillippe 'Without a doubt, superior to the 1961 film': Steven Spielberg's West Side Story remake wins rave reviews after world premiere... with viewers branding movie an 'amazing triumph' Demi Moore, 59, risks taking a tumble while assisting a bleeding male pal and being supported by aides during calamitous departure from British Fashion Awards Little Mix singer Leigh-Anne Pinnock narrowly avoids a wardrobe malfunction as she forgoes underwear in a daring dress at Boxing Day premiere Perrie Edwards and Jade Thirlwall look typically stylish as they support Little Mix bandmate Leigh-Anne Pinnock at Boxing Day premiere Where's the rest of the Material, Girl? Madonna, 63, flashes her underwear as she spreads her legs in a mini dress while partying with Dua Lipa Iggy Azalea reveals her Christmas plans with her 19-month-old son Onyx after admitting she is open to finding love again following ugly split with Playboi Carti Advertisement Olivia Rodrigo makes a pitstop for romance as she kisses boyfriend Adam Faze on the side of a road... after nabbing SEVEN Grammy nods Michael J Fox, 60, reveals how he has been able to deal with the 'dark' phases while battling Parkinson's Disease for the past 30 years Kanye 'Ye' West aims to help the homeless population in Los Angeles and meets with city leaders to establish plan Megan Barton-Hanson blasts the Kardashians for being 'misleading' about cosmetic work... a year on from THAT Scott Disick spat Braless Rihanna is a vision in orange Bottega Veneta dress as the first president of Barbados is sworn in - and singer becomes only second ever woman named as country's National Hero The Weeknd, Olivia Rodrigo and H.E.R and win big at the 2021 Apple Music Awards Kyle Richards stars as a merciless mom determined to win her town's Christmas decorating contest at any cost in the first trailer for The Housewives of the North Pole Jacob Elordi refuses to discuss then-girlfriend Kaia Gerber in Esquire interview... following split from girlfriend of one year Some stars never age! Mad About You vet Helen Hunt, 58, dazzles at the Gotham Awards in a tank top that shows off her sculpted arms 'My a is hot in this photo!' Chrishell Stause shows off her sizzling frame in a black corset as she jokes about her bottom while posing beside a fire Advertisement Olivia Colman is the picture of elegance in chic black dress complete with cut-out detailing as she attends premiere of gritty drama Landscapers Paul Walker's daughter Meadow pays touching tribute to her late father on eighth anniversary of his death: 'Today and everyday I celebrate your life' Ethan Hawke looks dapper in a black suit as he makes a rare appearance with wife Ryan at 2021 Gotham Awards The Voice's Wendy Moten returns with BOTH arms in casts after she broke right elbow and fractured left wrist in THAT fall on live TV Jennifer Aniston to lead star-studded live re-enactment of The Facts Of Life for ABC alongside Gabrielle Union and Kathryn Hahn 'I'm lucky to be alive and also have a limb': Emotional Tiger Woods discusses severity of horrific car crash and spending three months in a hospital bed Crown Prince of Japan reveals HE decided his daughter Princess Mako shouldn't have a traditional Shinto wedding due to husband's financial scandal West Side Story star Rita Moreno, 89, wears a shimmering gown on red carpet for Steven Spielberg's musical remake... 60 years after winning Oscar for the original Hailey Bieber wows in a skin-tight catsuit with a bust-boosting corset while Zoë Kravitz is a vision in a patterned mini as they lead the glamour at Art Basel Mick Jagger's ballerina girlfriend Melanie Hamrick shows off her incredible physique in gruelling strength workout Advertisement Tristan Thompson has fan ejected from Memphis basketball game 'for heckling him about the Kardashians' days after LeBron James had fans booted for taunting him Victoria Beckham shares a glimpse of her healthy lunch as she hangs out with son Romeo while he enjoys a pizza after the British Fashion Awards Mel B's lookalike daughter Phoenix Brown, 22, keeps things casual in a hoodie as she attends games event It's supposed to be the Fashion Awards! Actress Wallis Day dons a crotch-flashing caped bodysuit while Priyanka Chopra goes full-on floral as they lead worst dressed on red carpet Fashion Awards 2021: Demi Moore, 59, displays VERY smooth complexion as she joins Kate Beckinsale, 48, and model Adriana Lima, 40, at event Adele CONFIRMS Vegas residency! Hello singer FINALLY announces long-speculated concerts as she prepares to take the stage at Caesars Palace for four months in 2022 Celeste Barber responds to critics who say she's 'mean' - and reveals why she isn't worried about offending celebrities like Kylie Jenner with her parody videos 'It catapulted my career and changed my life': Selling Sunset's Heather Young reveals she posed naked for Playboy before becoming a star and has 'no regrets' 'I'm on the right meds thanks to no doctor or conservatorship!' Britney Spears gives a health update after legal battle and reveals she 'gets high' from fasting for up to FOUR DAYS 'For years I couldn't watch myself as a child in a music video:' Billie Piper reveals therapy helped her cope with looking back at early fame and says she relates to Britney Advertisement Lorenzo Lamas announces his mother and 1950s Hollywood star Arlene Dahl has passed away at 96 in New York City Bradley Cooper and Irina Shayk look a picture of bliss with daughter Lea after sparking speculation romance is back on Supermodel Paulina Porizkova reveals how late husband Ric Ocasek was 'obsessed' with her and controlled her life, saying he told her what to wear and what jobs to do Reach for the cards! S Club 7's Paul Cattermole launches new career as a YouTube tarot card reader 23 years after becoming a popstar Royally tired: Moment Prince Charles falls ASLEEP at midnight ceremony to mark Barbados becoming a republic ending four centuries with British monarch head of state Prince Andrew grins as he rides through Windsor while Ghislaine Maxwell's sex trafficking trial begins in New York Maggie Gyllenhaal makes rare appearance with teenage daughter as film The Lost Daughter scores four wins at Gotham Film Awards in NYC Alice Evans shares throwback snaps with estranged husband Ioan Gruffudd - after claiming he 'bought cocaine while filming new TV show but had to leave it' in now-deleted post Hugh Jackman, 53, pays loving tribute to wife Deborra-Lee Furness on her 66th birthday Cara Santana flaunts her toned abs in a plunging black sports bra and leggings as she leaves a workout session in West Hollywood Advertisement Selling Sunset's Mary Fitzgerald, 41, reveals she'll freeze her embryos while she and husband Romain Bonnet, 28, focus on their careers Bethenny Frankel and Jason Hoppy heading back to court over custody of daughter Bryn, 11, as war between exes rages on Travis Scott's offer to pay funeral expenses for Astroworld victim Ezra Blount, nine, is rejected by family who say rapper 'bears some of the responsibility for this tragedy' Khloe Kardashian sports $332 Dannijo x Mambacita sweats to escort daughter True to dance class Jussie Smollett's lawyer tells trial Empire star didn't lie about homophobic attack and insists actor is a 'real victim of a 'real crime' Ashley Roberts nails androgynous chic in pinstripe suit and Nike trainers as she makes stylish exit from Heart Radio The Pussycat Dolls star Queen congratulates Barbados on becoming a republic as island cuts ties with UK: Rihanna attends ceremony where Prince Charles says slavery 'forever stains our history' Kate's Christmas carols! Duchess sends out invites to service that will be broadcast on ITV after the Cambridges 'dropped' the BBC amid royal documentary row Prince Albert of Monaco pays tribute to singer Josephine Baker - a close friend of his mother Grace Kelly - at solo engagement as wife Princess Charlene remains in treatment Jessica Alba poses with lookalike daughter Honor and sips a margarita in a cute 'photo dump' from Thanksgiving Advertisement Marilyn Manson's apartment is RAIDED by sheriff's investigators who seized hard drives while probing claims he sexually assaulted women including his ex Evan Rachel Wood Dakota Johnson, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Kristen Stewart, and Tessa Thompson glam up for The Gotham Awards in NYC Julianne Moore hits the red carpet in black suit before presenting the Performer Tribute Award to Kristen Stewart at the 2021 Gotham Awards Olivia Culpo looks leggy in a bright strapless mini dress with ruffles as she makes a glamorous appearance at 2021 British Fashion Awards Adriana Lima puts on a racy display in a bejewelled white coord as she lies on the FLOOR at 2021 Fashion Award's cocktail reception A Law unto herself! Model Iris flashes her bottom while modelling a striking silver bra and semi-sheer skirt as she leaves the star-studded 2021 British Fashion Awards Pregnant Skins and Maze Runner actress Kaya Scodelario cradles her baby bump in a frilled silver mini dress as she attends the Fashion Awards Lila Moss, 19, showcases her model physique in a sporty Burberry mini dress as she heads to the Fashion Awards Lady Amelia Windsor puts on a glamorous display in a shimmering off-the-shoulder gown and golden clutch as she departs the British Fashion Awards Thandiwe Newton looks incredible in silver cut-out dress - as she swaps her heels for slippers while leaving Gotham Awards in New York City Advertisement Kylie Minogue, 53, busts her best moves at the Fashion Awards after party as she wows in a teal mini dress March of the models! Winnie Harlow and Shanina Shaik sizzle while Jourdan Dunn shows off her legs at Fashion Awards after-party Winnie Harlow commands attention in a quirky padded quilted co-ord at the 2021 Fashion Awards Jenna Coleman looks ethereal in a billowing Grecian style gown as she attends the Fashion Awards She always exudes elegance Strike a Pose! Indya Moore displays their cleavage in a busty red evening dress as they make a glamorous appearance at the 2021 British Fashion Awards Kim Jones and Tommy Hilfiger are the night's big winners with gongs while Virgil Abloh receives a posthumous nod at 2021 Fashion Awards Ansel Elgort and his longtime girlfriend Violetta Komyshan attend the premiere of his film West Side Story in New York City Rachel Zegler stuns in bell-shaped dress at NY premiere for Steven Spielberg's remake of the musical West Side Story Steven Spielberg hits the red carpet in a stylish suit with his wife Kate Capshaw at the star-studded world premiere of his West Side Story remake Meet the 51 beauty queens vying for Miss USA crown: From first openly-trans contestant to Air Force officer with PTSD, FEMAIL reveals the women going head-to-head for coveted title Advertisement Queen Maxima of the Netherlands dons a crimson dress and matching coat as she visits Schiedam for the launch of a network aiming to help residents become debt free Australian soccer star Sam Kerr embraces her American girlfriend Kristie Mewis on the pitch as Matildas force a thrilling 1-1 draw against the US with a last-minute goal Love match! Tennis world no.3 Garbine photos of Caribbean break with Tom Ford exec Arthur Borges - just months after end of his marriage to Finnish 'Ice Princess' skater Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck organize a food drive at his Pacific Palisades home after spending Thanksgiving together with their families Joanne Froggatt reveals Sir Mick Jagger 'loves' Downton Abbey and even 'cut short a Rolling Stones rehearsal' to watch the period drama Look away, Jesy! Emily in Paris star Lucien Laviscount cozies up to GoT's Hannah John-Kamen and a bevvy of beauties in another humiliating blow to ex Little Mix star Kodi Smit-McPhee reveals the one thing co-star Benedict Cumberbatch wouldn't talk about on the set of new film The Power of the Dog The Voice: Ariana Grande praises Jim and Sasha Allen for 'best performance to date' as Top 10 sing Even MEL BROOKS's friends told him a musical about Nazis was crazy. But as he reveals in his riotous memoir, it won him an Oscar... and launched eccentric movie career Gabrielle Union commands attention in neon green cut-out gown with huge train at the 2021 Fashion Awards Advertisement Elsa Hosk goes barefoot as she kicks off her towering Jimmy Choo stilettos to celebrate at the 2021 British Fashion Awards afterparty Frail Phil Collins, 70, performs from a chair at Genesis' The Last Domino? Detroit concert - as singer battles debilitating health condition Martyr turned melody maker? James Blunt offers a surprising response to the claim he 'helped prevent World War III' during his army days Rooney Mara is the epitome of chic in stylish full-length black dress on the red carpet at 2021 Gotham Awards in New York City Winnie Harlow makes a stylish departure from Fashion Awards afterparty as she wears an ab-flashing leather bustier and tiger-print skirt Kylie Minogue leads the performers in a black floral jumpsuit as she entertains a packed Royal Albert Hall while topping the bill at the British Fashion Awards 31st Annual Gotham Awards: Maggie Gyllenhaal's The Lost Daughter wins big with four awards including Best Feature Pretty Little Liars star Tammin Sursok gives fans a little too much information about her period in comedic post Sharon Osbourne, 69, goes make-up free as she shows off smooth complexion during low-key outing with her daughter Kelly in Beverly Hills Cody Simpson's model girlfriend Marloes Stevens speaks out after the singer went on a bizarre rant about 'tyranny and fearmongering' Chadwick Boseman remembered by family and friends on what would have been the late Black Panther star's 45th birthday Stranger Things actor Dacre Montgomery's model girlfriend Liv Pollock almost has a wardrobe malfunction as she wears a blanket-style skirt to dinner Blake Shelton ridicules That's My Jam in 'sneak episode' premiere of Jimmy Fallon game show as Kelly Clarkson and Ariana Grande face-off in medley Mia Goth showcases her bump in a midriff-baring tank top as she heads to the gym...while rumors fly that she is 'pregnant' by Shia LaBeouf Maggie Gyllenhaal wows in a daring cut out sequin gown as she scoops four awards for The Lost Daughter at The Gotham Awards in New York Kristen Stewart catches the eye in a strapless neon pink velvet gown as she receives Performer Tribute Award at the 2021 Gotham Awards Ruth Negga stands out from the crowd in a monochrome patterned dress at the Gotham Independent Film Awards in NYC 'I f*ed up': Will Ferrell's long-time collaborator Adam McKay reveals they fell out after he cast John C. Reilly as Lakers owner Jerry Buss instead of the Elf star Nicolas Cage, 57, and his wife Riko Shibata, 26, arrive in style at the Gotham Awards in NYC 'Don't lose any more weight!' Fans express their concern for Martine McCutcheon, 43, after Love Actually star looks 'too thin' in latest snap 'I've got the acting bug now': Leigh-Anne Pinnock discusses new film Boxing Day - after former bandmate Jesy Nelson was spotted in a clinch with her ex Rita Ora goes braless in a slinky blue satin dress as she sizzles in series of glamorous social media snaps Sultry display Trey Songz is at the center of a sexual assault probe in Las Vegas according to police following an alleged incident on Sunday Kelly Osbourne pictured out for the first time since revealing she was 'back on track' following relapse after four years of sobriety Salma Hayek puts on a very busty display in a Gucci swimsuit: 'This is not my wardrobe for House Of Gucci but I highly recommend it anyway' Renee Zellweger, 52, enjoys a day out with boyfriend Ant Anstead, 42, and his son Hudson in Louisiana as she takes a break from filming true crime series Florence Pugh, 25, puffs on a cigarette while bundled up as she enjoys day out with boyfriend Zach Braff, 46, and pals in NYC Kris Jenner looks elegant in bold wraparound cape jacket as she and her boyfriend Corey Gamble attend the 2021 Fashion Awards in London Michael K. Williams docuseries Black Market teases upcoming season two... featuring some of his final on-screen work before his death at 54 Victoria's Secret's Stella Maxwell puts on a leggy display in a sheer dress as Elsa Hosk makes a statement in florals at the Fashion Awards Ciara wishes husband Russell Wilson a happy birthday in loving post: 'I wake up everyday excited to love you' Dakota Johnson keeps warm in NYC in fall fashion ... as she remains in celeb romance with Coldplay's Chris Martin 'I'm so very proud of you': John Travolta is amazed by daughter Ella Bleu's singing and piano playing as she prepares to release her own EP in 2022 Zendaya wows in black chain gown at the Ballon d'Or awards in Paris as she is joined by beau Tom Holland for their first joint red carpet appearance Star Wars Ahsoka spin-off TV series casts Ivanna Sakhno as a brand new character alongside Rosario Dawson and Natasha Liu Bordizzo Kim Kardashian shares touching tribute to Virgil Abloh and sends love to his wife Shannon after fashion designer's death at 41.... as Kanye West deletes all Instagram posts R&B singer Ari Lennox is arrested on suspicion of being drunk and behaving aggressively towards workers at Amsterdam airport - but she furiously accuses staff of racism Bradley Cooper reveals he was held up at KNIFEPOINT while on the New York City subway in 2019 as he went to pick up his daughter from school Dumping his country wheels! Kanye West sells his seven Wyoming trucks for almost $500K... after listing his sprawling ranch for $11M Naomi Campbell, 51, and Winnie Harlow, 27, storm the catwalk as they put on a show at the Fashion Awards Kate Beckinsale commands attention in a busty black and gold gown as she attends the Fashion Awards The Book of Boba Fett trailer teases his takeover of Jabba the Hutt's land and his recovery from Tattooine... plus two new character posters Real Housewives of Salt Lake City star Jen Shah boasted about spending $50K monthly in Bravo audition ... prior to her arrest in alleged telemarketing scheme Jessie James Decker displays her bikini body while having 'fun in the sun' during Cancun vacation with her family: 'We had a ball' Tommy Dorfman takes the plunge in Richard Quinn gown at The Fashion Awards in London Miley Cyrus will be hosting a New Year's Eve special from Miami with SNL vet and Kim Kardashian's beau Pete Davidson for NBC Kyle Richards' daughter Farrah Aldjufrie shows off massive diamond ring as she announces engagement to fiancé Alex Manos In the nude! Shaina Shaik dares to bare in a see through form-fitting sequin gown as she attends The Fashion Awards in London Margot Robbie reveals her husband Tom Ackerley's secret role in the Harry Potter film series Bella Thorne's mother is married! Tamara Thorne, 51, weds 'Doc' in a lavish ceremony in Punta Mita as the actress calls them 'crazy lovesick teenagers' Priyanka Chopra wows in a floral catsuit and cape as she cuddles up to Nick Jonas at the Fashion Awards Charli XCX is a knockout in busty gown with a thigh-high split as she struts her stuff at the Fashion Awards Dua Lipa exudes elegance in a glamorous black bardot gown as she attends the Fashion Awards Romeo Beckham looks dapper alongside model girlfriend Mia Regan who oozes sophistication in plunging black gown at Fashion Awards Addison Rae looks radiant in a satin corset gown as she graces the red carpet for the 2021 Fashion Awards Lady Amelia Windsor stuns in a shimmering off-the-shoulder gown as she attends the British Fashion Awards at the Royal Albert Hall Amelia, 26, is 43rd in the line to the throne Advertisement DON'T MISS Iris Law and her brother Rafferty are dressed to impress for the Fashion Awards 2021 as they wow on the red carpet in standout ensembles Hugh Jackman and Naomi Watts lead tributes to Indigenous actor David Gulpilil as the Crocodile Dundee star dies aged 68 following a battle with lung cancer Lily Allen defiantly displays her figure in a backless jumpsuit at the Fashion Awards - after hitting out at 'skinny shamers' who expressed concerns over her 'slim' look Jussie Smollett arrives at court for his hoax race attack trial: Jury selection gets underway and brothers who say Empire actor paid them to beat him will take the stand later this week Billie Piper wows in a quirky baby blue gown and thigh high stockings as she attends the Fashion Awards Rihanna has 'arrived in Barbados for the inauguration of its first president' after her home country decided to remove the Queen as head of state, local media claims Tiffany Haddish and Common SPLIT after 16 months of dating: 'They are just too busy for a serious relationship' Victoria's Secret model Emily DiDonato announces birth of her daughter with heartwarming post: 'She's here and she's perfect' Who is Bader Shammas? Everything to know about Lindsay Lohan's fiancé... as the private pair get engaged after two years of dating Gucci family eviscerates 'far from accurate' House of Gucci film, accusing the Lady Gaga-led movie of portraying them as 'thugs' and 'insulting the legacy' of the brand The Bachelor's Colton Underwood cries in trailer for Netflix series as he admits he's 'ashamed' for hiding sexuality and putting ex Cassie Randolph 'through hell' Zendaya showcases her enviable legs in a chic taupe maxi dress as she joins dapper boyfriend Tom Holland for romantic dinner in Paris Before they were Selling Sunset! Glamourous realtors look VERY different in pre-fame throwback snaps - with pre-surgery Christine appearing in a horror movie Shirtless Rolling Stones rocker Ronnie Wood, 74, plants a sweet kiss on wife Sally, 43, as couple enjoy family beach day in Miami with their daughters Jennifer Aniston plays hairdresser as she rubs leave-in conditioner into the locks of her longtime makeup artist Angela to plug her Lola Vie line Former Maxim model reveals she was 'drugged and raped at lunch with a photographer', and says her agent forced her to sleep with him to get work Fashion's understated A-lister: Off-White founder Virgil Abloh was taught to sew by his seamstress mother, married his childhood sweetheart and shunned celeb lifestyle Hilaria Baldwin films her son Rafael, six, apologizing for swearing after he drops the F-bomb AGAIN... as she continues to share parenting struggle They look like sisters! Lisa Rinna, 58, appears youthful in a wig as she announces mini-me daughter Amelia Hamlin, 20, has created a lip kit for her makeup line Leonardo DiCaprio sells one of his beachfront Malibu mansions for OVER asking price at $10.3million... after picking it up in 1998 for $1.6million Magic Mike's Last Dance to reunite Channing Tatum and Steven Soderberg for steamy return on HBO Max The actor, 41, is set to return to stripper role Irina Shayk bundles up in a black jacket with a turtleneck top as she pushes an empty stroller while on coffee run in New York City Spider-Man: No Way Home fans CRASH movie websites first day tickets go on sale... as new IMAX poster featuring star Tom Holland is released Spider-Man producer CONFIRMS Tom Holland will be returning as Peter Parker in ANOTHER TRILOGY with Marvel Pirelli Calendar 2022: Rita Ora flashes her assets in chainmail for steamy bathtub snap, Saweetie gets busty and Iggy Pop strips off for star-studded Bryan Adams shoot Judge in Josh Duggar child pornography case bans phones, laptops, and recording devices from court as reality star prepares to stand trial Tuesday Shahs Of Sunset star Lilly Ghalichi's Los Angeles home burglarized while on vacation in St. Bart's 'I often look back at photos of that time': Shawn Mendes recalls the 'beautiful simplicity' of spending lockdown with his now ex-girlfriend Camila Cabelo Anna Wintour's daughter Bee shares sweet snaps of her baby son Oliver to mark his first month of life - including her first family photo with husband Francesco Carrozzini 'Seventeen of the sweetest years of life': Julia Roberts pays tribute to twins Hazel and Phinnaeus as she shares throwback on their birthday Braless Charli XCX accidentally exposes her entire breast in a risqué little black dress while presenting award at the ARIAs Ed Sheeran and Elton John team up to recreate Love Actually's famous doorstep scene as they announce new Christmas single Disney bows to China: Simpsons episode with Tiananmen Square sign saying 'on this site, in 1989, nothing happened' is missing from streaming service launched in Hong Kong An emotional support ferret, prison sunbathing, her macaw parrot and a relentless diva attitude... What House Of Gucci and Lady Gaga DIDN'T show of Patrizia Reggiani 'I'll cry about tonight forever': Lady Gaga gets tearful as she performs final show with Tony Bennett - before he retired aged 95 due to Alzheimer's Chantel Jeffries drops jaws as she showcases her stunning beach body in VERY skimpy pink bikini in Miami 'We need to be fking scared!' Cate Blanchett discusses global warming, parenting in the digital age and being Adele's style icon as she graces the cover of PORTER Nicolas Cage, 57, and wife Riko Shibata, 26, are fashion coordinated in black leather as they hit up the shops in New York City London calling! Emily Ratajkowski nails winter chic in a black trench coat and an oversized leopard print hat as she departs book signing of My Body 'Being a jerk at work is now not okay': George Clooney discusses the impact of the #MeToo movement but admits more change is needed in the film industry Elliot Page shows off six-pack abs in new shirtless mirror selfie as he jokes: 'My new phone works' PICTURED: Three-year-old nephew of celebrity stylist Law Roach who fell 170-feet to his death after pushing out a window screen in 17th floor Chicago apartment Jennifer Garner chats with her daughter Violet's driving instructor as the teen prepares to take the wheel in LA Victoria's Secret model Joy Corrigan shows off incredible figure in skimpy gym attire as she poses up a storm for outdoor photoshoot End of an era: Prince Charles touches down in Barbados for ceremony to remove the Queen as head of state after Caribbean nation decided to become a republic Selling Sunset's Lothario is REVEALED! Co-stars Christine Quinn and Emma Hernan's joint former 'fiancé' is unveiled as realtor Peter Cornell 'I went to school with gang members and drug users': Selling Sunset's Christine Quinn reflects on her fraught teen years and jail stint for weed at 17 Kourtney Kardashian proves she already fits into Travis Barker's family as she hangs out with drummer's three children Kourtney Kardashian and Travis Barker can't keep their hands off each other as they share a cuddle while filming TikTok with Penelope Disick 'Runway is so terrifying!' Winnie Harlow reveals she BLED down first ever catwalk after tripping up and admits she wanted 'white girl hair' Megan Fox and Machine Gun Kelly go shopping on family vacation in Greece with her sons and his daughter Casie Floyd Mayweather is joined by glamorous on-off girlfriend Gallienne Nabila as they sit courtside for LA Lakers game Newlywed Paris Hilton calls her parents Kathy and Rick 'relationship goals' as she marks their 42nd wedding anniversary with throwbacks Oscar winner Matthew McConaughey says he WON'T launch bid to become Governor of Texas after teasing career in politics Jenny Slatten and Sumit Singh FINALLY tie the knot on the Season 3 finale of 90 Day Fiance: The Other Way 'Don't put your nose near your daughter's mouth': David Beckham reveals bloodied face after Harper, 10, bit him while he tickled her Nicki Minaj steals the show while taking over as host of The Real Housewives Of Potomac reunion Liam Payne thrills teen fan as he performs series of solo and One Direction tracks at her VERY lavish 15th birthday bash in Brazil Adele scores her FOURTH UK number one album with 30 after shifting 260k copies in one week and gaining 55.7m streams... yet sales are still DOWN 75% on last record 25 Adele, 33, explains she makes music for her peers and NOT for the 'TikTok generation' and reveals her son Angelo, 9, is 'not a fan' of her tracks Nicole Scherzinger puts on busty display in plunging black dress as she poses on the Empire State Building Tori Spelling and Dean McDermott pictured TOGETHER for the first time since reports of impending divorce as they take their kids to dinner in LA Kylie Minogue treats herself to a $1.3m payday after raking in $3m with the success of latest album Disco... as she gears up to move back to Australia 'Happy Hanukkah!' Beaming Andy Cohen lights his menorah with son Benjamin, 2, as he joins stars including Scott Disick and Adam Sandler in celebrations 'It's a Hanukkah miracle that I'm baking': Chelsea Handler celebrates Hanukkah by making a phallic-shaped Challah bread in hilarious video Chantel Jeffries simply sizzles in a sexy brown bikini as she soaks up the sun while on holiday in Miami Gigi and Bella Hadid pay tribute to late friend and collaborator Virgil Abloh ... following designer's passing at 41 after cancer battle Jimmy Iovine, 68, and wife Liberty Ross, 43, make a great match with coordinating hoodies and jeans as they check out the Lakers game in LA Jennifer Lopez packs on the PDA with boyfriend Ben Affleck on a romantic night out at Spago in Beverly Hills Prince Charles' aides DENY claim in new book that he was the 'royal racist' who 'questioned what color skin Harry and Meghan's children would have' Porsha Williams sets record straight about timeline with new fiance Simon Guobadia on spin-off show Lindsay Lohan is ENGAGED! Actress reveals she will marry her 'love, life, family and future' Bader Shammas as she unveils stunning diamond ring Mariah Carey wishes her fans a happy Hanukkah as she serenades her twin children Moroccan and Monroe with song she learned in grade school J.B. Smoove offers advice for his Spider-Man: No Way Home co-stars Zendaya and Tom Holland: 'Have time for love but have time for laughter' Abba could be rolling in the Money Money Money as Las Vegas hotels start bidding war for live show - which could rake in 'almost $1billion' Jesy Nelson is 'mortified' by drunken flirtation with former band-mate Leigh-Anne Pinnock's ex, Emily In Paris star Lucien Laviscount Leigh-Anne Pinnock's 2012 date with Jesy Nelson's new love interest revealed as fans speculate singer 'broke girl code' when she tried to kiss actor Leona Lewis looks ready for winter in a monochromatic white outfit as she belts out her Christmas song One More Sleep on TV Busy Philipps says eldest child Birdie 'discussed' coming out as non-binary with her as she labels them 'the coolest' for embracing their true identity Bindi Irwin showcases her post-baby body in a plunging emerald dress at the Steve Irwin Gala... eight months after welcoming daughter Grace Jillian Michaels is engaged! Personal trainer proposed to DeShanna Marie Minuto with stunning seven-carat diamond ring: 'She said yes!' Mariah Carey calls The Project host Waleed Aly the wrong name - before revealing the moving inspiration behind her famous Christmas song Fear The Walking Dead: Morgan Jones poisons Victor Strand as Tower community faces catapult attack The Walking Dead: World Beyond: Hope and Iris Bennett make explosive escape from CRM complex Palace lawyers are on standby for bombshell Megxit documentary: Royal Family has not ruled out taking action against the BBC over 'unfounded and overblown claims' The Spencer sisters take London! Lady Amelia packs on the PDA with fiancé Greg Mallet at his birthday party and rugs up at Winter Wonderland with twin Lady Eliza and pals Prince Charles' goddaughter India Hicks reveals glimpse inside Emilia Wickstead dress fittings after marrying partner of 26 years David Flint Wood Sam Asghari goes grocery shopping solo in California's Thousand Oaks... after picking up two 'fiancé' and 'fiancée' tumblers for himself and Britney Spears Dave Franco and wife Alison Brie are the picture of happiness as they enjoy a stroll through their LA neighborhood 'His shirt was doing a better dance than Dan': Strictly Come Dancing viewers rave over Tilly Ramsay's partner Nikita's dance -off striptease... as her father Gordon looks on 'He was bipolar which meant he could be absolutely impossible': Great British Baking Show's Prue Leith, 81, reveals why she was forced to end 'affair with wonderful man' Joan Collins, 88, can't stop smiling as she walks arm-in-arm with her doting husband Percy Gibson, 56, after dinner at celeb hotspot Craig's Halsey showcases rocker style alongside boyfriend Alev Aydin as they sit courtside to watch LA Lakers take on Detroit Pistons at Staples Center Cody Simpson goes on a bizarre rant about tyranny as he urges his fans to 'stand up to oppression and authoritarianism' and claims 'a fearful public is a controllable public' Wizkid pays tribute to late Virgil Abloh at sold-out O2 gig following his death at 41... as chaos reigns off-stage with fans stampeding venue to gain entry Ciara serenades her husband Russell Wilson to celebrate his 33rd birthday a day early Rod Stewart details his turbulent friendship with his 'old mucker' Elton John as he claims the pair have fallen out AGAIN 'The world has lost a fashion superstar': Louis Vuitton's visionary artistic director Virgil Abloh, 41, dies after secret two-year battle against rare cancer Just like a movie! A merry Hugh Jackman and wife Deborra-Lee Furness put on a loved-up display as they leave a Thanksgiving lunch in New York 'I'm feeling rubbish': Double-jabbed Keira Knightley reveals her family have contracted Covid but 'smug' husband James Righton is asymptomatic Kanye West memorializes late friend and collaborator Virgil Abloh at Sunday Service following designer's passing at 41 from rare form of cancer How the son of a Ghanaian seamstress rose to become the first black artistic director of Louis Vuitton after forging friendship with Kanye West: Virgil Abloh dies age 41 'He'll be missed': Fashion icon Virgil Abloh is honored by Hailey Bieber, Pharell Williams and Marc Jacobs following his tragic death at 41 Colin Farrell shows off his sculpted legs as he maintains his fit physique with a run in LA Heather Rae Young spends time with her new stepchildren as she enjoys a getaway to La Quinta with her new husband Tarek El Moussa Jesse Tyler Ferguson laughs off rude fan chatter about his Selling Sunset cameo: 'I'm LOLing at the unanimous confusion' Chris Pine shows off his toned chest in an unbuttoned blue shirt for BAREFOOT outing in LA 'It's not the same': Top Gear fans fume over Freddie Flintoff missing trip to Iceland after he was forced to self-isolate and brand the show 'boring' without him Gabrielle Union means business in a mix-match pantsuit as she heads to a Wizkid concert in London... after paying tribute to Virgil Abloh Encanto tops Thanksgiving weekend box office with $40 million five-day debut.. edging out Ghostbusters: Afterlife Jerry O'Connell gets into the holiday spirit with an eye-catching red suit as he joins celebrities at the 89th Annual Hollywood Christmas Parade Bachelor Nation's John Hersey denies his girlfriend Katie Thurston cheated on former fiancé Blake Moynes with him Offset is a doting dad as he twins with his three-year-old daughter Kulture Kiari in stylish snaps posted by proud mom Cardi B Karol G shows off bodily bruises, a scratched up knee and bandaged ankle after tumbling off stage stairs during Miami concert Madonna has her children by her side as she gets the Hebrew word for 'kissed' inked onto her wrist: 'Completing the trilogy of tattoos' Gwen Stefani rocks a cute Santa outfit as she promotes The Wonderful World of Disney: Magical Holiday Celebration Christine Quinn shares more details from dramatic birth to son Christian - and hits back at 'sick' trolls who accused her of faking the pregnancy Gal Gadot trades in the heels for slippers during grocery run in LA... following wild success of Netflix movie Red Notice John Cena surprises fans at special edition of Comic-Con in full Peacemaker costume to promote show Succession Season 3 Episode 7: Kendall Roy celebrates his 40th birthday with a huge bash... while Shiv and Roman try to court a tech mogul Casey Affleck, 46, can't keep his hands off new girlfriend Caylee Cowan, 23, as they kiss each other goodbye in LA Sofia Richie puts her toned figure on display as she hits the trails with beau Elliot Grainge in Beverly Hills Mindy Kaling shares a rare snap of her daughter Katherine and son Spencer on Thanksgiving: 'What I'm grateful for this year' Serena Williams and daughter Alexis Ohanian Jr. strike a pose in matching orange dresses Charlize Theron sizzles in a strapless yellow bathing suit as she and her mother Gerda enjoy the warm weather in Mexico 'He is my greatest protector': Pregnant Rosie Huntington-Whiteley reflects on life with 'tough, supportive' fiancé Jason Statham as they prepare for baby number two A$AP Rocky sports a winter coat and scarf to pick up pizza after a long session at the studio in New York Alfonso Ribeiro says he's not sure if he'll read Fresh Prince co-star Will Smith's memoir Will: 'I know the people' Adele's album sales for 30 are DOWN 75% from her previous record 25... but star still scores biggest debut of the year with 838,000 copies sold in first week Lizzo rocks a bold zebra-print ensemble as she cheers on her new pals BTS at their LA concert Teyana Taylor forced to reschedule Connecticut show after her 'body gave out' and the singer was sent to the ER Delilah Belle Hamlin and boyfriend Eyal Booker enjoy dinner in Beverly Hills... weeks after she revealed an accidental overdose from prescription medication Alessandra Ambrosio ventures around Hawaii in a bikini top and cut-off shorts as she happens upon an idyllic waterfall during picturesque nature walk Gabrielle Union bundles up in a red faux-fur coat and matching trousers as she enjoys a night out in chilly London Tommy Hilfiger reveals he wanted to be a rock'n'roll star but was 'tone deaf' and remembers how his strict parents tried to ban him from wearing 'bad boy' tight jeans as a teen 'That was how seriously he took it': Gary Oldman 'slept in a coffin EVERY NIGHT' as he prepared for iconic role as Count Dracula in Francis Ford Coppola blockbuster Fun in the sun! Princess Beatrice's husband Edo Mapelli Mozzi's ex Dara Huang shares rare snaps of their son Wolfie, 5, during glamorous holiday in Dubai Rod Stewart, 76, and Penny Lancaster, 50, treat son Alastair to a lavish slap-up meal as teenager celebrates his 16th birthday 'Queen of Christmas' Mariah Carey rings in the holiday season by slipping into a red dress to relax by her fireplace adorned with twinkle lights and ornaments Kim Kardashian 'looked happy' during low-key date with Pete Davidson at hotel in LA... after estranged husband Kanye West vowed God would bring them back together Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger dons light therapy glasses said to boost your energy and mood - before cuddle with lover 44 years his junior Taylor Swift's BFF Abigail Anderson is engaged after announcing divorce earlier this year: 'Thankful for my man' Angelina Jolie looks chic while taking her teenage daughters Zahara, 16, and Vivienne, 13, out for coffee in Los Feliz Ono she didn't! Yoko champions new Beatles documentary Get Back after director Peter Jackson claimed she wasn't responsible for disbanding the Fab Four Sinitta, 58, puts on a leggy display in thigh-high boots and a mini dress as she enjoys night out in London Karrueche Tran flashes toned tummy in a cutout top paired with a leather wrap skirt to grab dinner with a gal pal in Santa Monica Hunter Biden is seen pushing one-year-old son Beau in a stroller and chatting to Nantucket locals before heading to Mass with father Joe and the rest of the family Kelly Brook puts on a leggy display in a racy sequin playsuit as she celebrates her 42nd birthday with beau Jeremy Parisi Alice Evans claims estranged husband Ioan Gruffudd 'bought 24 grams of cocaine while filming new TV show' in yet another Twitter attack... before deleting post Irina Shayk bundles up in style as she braves New York in camel jacket... after heading to ex Bradley Cooper's place for Thanksgiving James Van Der Beek's wife Kimberly shares precious snap of the couple cuddling with baby son Jeremiah... after celebrating first Thanksgiving with the newborn Nicole Richie and hubby Joel Madden color-coordinate in black activewear to take their German Shepherds for a walk through Beverly Hills You star Victoria Pedretti drops out of adaptation of Alice Sebold's memoir Lucky, it's revealed days after man the author accused of rape is exonerated Chris Pratt and his wife Katherine Schwarzenegger team up with her mother Maria Shriver and siblings as they go Christmas tree shopping The Tragedy Of Macbeth: A dagger-wielding Denzel Washington sheds blood in the name of power as Frances McDormand surveys the madness in new teaser Sharon Stone thanks mother's nurse for 'compassion' and credits her 'nursing skills' for saving the 88-year-old who is doing writing therapy following acute stroke Rihanna shows off her pert derriere in a pair of racy cut-out shorts with matching bralette from her Savage X Fenty lingerie line Britney Spears' fiance Sam Asghari hits the gym for a weekend workout with a friend in Thousand Oaks Tom Cruise hangs UPSIDE DOWN on the wing of a WWII Biplane while it does a loop-the-loop and nose-dive as he performs death-defying stunt for MI-8 Nicolas Cage, 57, and his wife Riko Shibata, 26, look loved up as they hold hands while strolling through JFK Airport in chic leather coats George Clooney discusses his 2018 motorcycle accident in a new interview - and says 'it was that or dead' of turning 60 'A lot of people are just scared of the vaccine': Blac Chyna stands by her pro-jab stance and is 'not sure' what to do about the unvaccinated following emergence of COVID-19 super strain Omicron Composer and lyricist Stephen Sondheim attended one of his own musicals on November 15 - eleven days before his death at the age 91 Music maestro Stephen Sondheim died after a celebratory Thanksgiving dinner with friends Doctored image of 'abused' Kate Middleton in domestic violence campaign was used without Palace permission Jodie Turner-Smith gives rare glimpse at family life as she shares snap of husband Joshua Jackson comparing feet with their baby daughter Janie Hilary Duff shares sweet snaps from her 'mom and daughter' date with Banks... before posting precious video of eight-month-old Mae James Naomi Campbell's aide quits her embattled charity Fashion For Relief as it faces misconduct inquiry Ariana Grande enjoys board games with her family and launches into a Beatles singalong as she shares a glimpse of her Thanksgiving with husband Dalton Ty Pennington, 56, officially ties the knot with Kellee Merrell, 33, during intimate ceremony at their Savannah, Georgia home mid-renovation Emily Ratajkowski wows in a zebra print coat and miniskirt as she steps out to promote her book My Body Jon Gosselin reveals his leg swelled TWICE its normal size after he was bit by poisonous brown recluse spider Scott Disick, 38, reunites with his model ex Christine Burke, 25, for a low-key dinner at Nobu Malibu - after his split from Amelia Hamlin Casey Affleck, 46, makes his relationship with actress Caylee Cowan, 23, official as he calls her 'my love' while donating blood together The Book Of Boba Fett's new teaser sees Temuera Morrison putting on the mercenary's iconic helmet while announcing his identity to his counterparts Teetotal Russell Brand pours his money into a pub as the comedian and his wife Laura snap up 16th Century inn 'Exactly what fatherhood should be': Strictly fans admire Gordon Ramsay for 'crying with pride' watching daughter Tilly dance the Samba Courteney Cox and her rocker boyfriend Johnny McDaid prove love really is in the air as they take a flying lesson in LA Christina Applegate, 49, seen for first time back on set since her MS diagnosis halted production of Dead To Me as she flashes fake baby bump Jason Sudeikis shows that kindness is not just Ted Lasso's trait as he wraps bikini-clad lover Keely Hazell in towel on romantic getaway to Cabo Today's headlines Most Read 'Sheriff's office, safe to come out': Moment Michigan school shooter, 15, tried to lure screaming students... 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0.947854	NewsNews Based on facts, either observed and verified directly by the reporter, or reported and verified from knowledgeable sources. DK Metcalf, Russell Wilson lead Seahawks past Eagles Share this: Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window) Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window) Click to print (Opens in new window) Seahawks receiver DK Metcalf celebrates after a catch for a first down during the first half of Monday’s game against the Eagles in Philadelphia. Metcalf had 10 catches for 177 yards in Seattle’s 23-17 victory. (AP Photo/Chris Szagola) By The Associated Press \| \| PUBLISHED: November 30, 2020 at 9:14 p.m. \| UPDATED: November 30, 2020 at 10:41 p.m. Eagles quarterback Carson Wentz is tackled by Seahawks linebacker K.J. Wright after running for a first down during the second quarter of Monday’s game in Philadelphia. (Photo by Elsa/Getty Images) Philadelphia Eagles’ Jalen Reagor, right, cannot catch a pass against Seattle Seahawks’ Shaquill Griffin during the first half of an NFL football game, Monday, Nov. 30, 2020, in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Derik Hamilton) PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA – NOVEMBER 30: Nickell Robey-Coleman #31 of the Philadelphia Eagles tackles Tyler Lockett #16 of the Seattle Seahawks during the third quarter at Lincoln Financial Field on November 30, 2020 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. (Photo by Elsa/Getty Images) PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA – NOVEMBER 30: David Moore #83 of the Seattle Seahawks catches a touchdown pass against Avonte Maddox #29 of the Philadelphia Eagles during the second quarter at Lincoln Financial Field on November 30, 2020 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. (Photo by Elsa/Getty Images) PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA – NOVEMBER 30: Richard Rodgers #85 of the Philadelphia Eagles is tackled by K.J. Wright #50 of the Seattle Seahawks during the third quarter at Lincoln Financial Field on November 30, 2020 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. (Photo by Mitchell Leff/Getty Images) PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA – NOVEMBER 30: Russell Wilson #3 of the Seattle Seahawks throws against the Philadelphia Eagles during the second quarter at Lincoln Financial Field on November 30, 2020 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. (Photo by Mitchell Leff/Getty Images) PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA – NOVEMBER 30: DK Metcalf #14 of the Seattle Seahawks is tackled by Darius Slay #24 of the Philadelphia Eagles during the second quarter at Lincoln Financial Field on November 30, 2020 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. (Photo by Mitchell Leff/Getty Images) PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA – NOVEMBER 30: Miles Sanders #26 of the Philadelphia Eagles carries for a first down as Jamal Adams #33 of the Seattle Seahawks defends during the second quarter at Lincoln Financial Field on November 30, 2020 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. (Photo by Elsa/Getty Images) PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA – NOVEMBER 30: Jalen Mills #21 of the Philadelphia Eagles celebrates a stop against the Seattle Seahawks during the second quarter at Lincoln Financial Field on November 30, 2020 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. (Photo by Elsa/Getty Images) PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA – NOVEMBER 30: Carson Wentz #11 of the Philadelphia Eagles throws a touchdown pass against the Seattle Seahawks during the fourth quarter at Lincoln Financial Field on November 30, 2020 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. (Photo by Elsa/Getty Images) PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA – NOVEMBER 30: Richard Rodgers #85 of the Philadelphia Eagles is tackled by K.J. Wright #50 of the Seattle Seahawks during the third quarter at Lincoln Financial Field on November 30, 2020 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. (Photo by Elsa/Getty Images) PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA – NOVEMBER 30: Chris Carson #32 of the Seattle Seahawks scores a touchdown against Rodney McLeod #23 of the Philadelphia Eagles during the second quarter at Lincoln Financial Field on November 30, 2020 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. (Photo by Mitchell Leff/Getty Images) Seattle Seahawks’ Chris Carson (32) scores a touchdown during the first half of an NFL football game against the Philadelphia Eagles, Monday, Nov. 30, 2020, in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Chris Szagola) PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA – NOVEMBER 30: Chris Carson #32 of the Seattle Seahawks scores a touchdown against Rodney McLeod #23 of the Philadelphia Eagles during the second quarter at Lincoln Financial Field on November 30, 2020 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. (Photo by Elsa/Getty Images) PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA – NOVEMBER 30: Head coach Doug Pederson of the Philadelphia Eagles looks on against the Seattle Seahawks during the third quarter at Lincoln Financial Field on November 30, 2020 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. (Photo by Mitchell Leff/Getty Images) PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA – NOVEMBER 30: Jalen Hurts #2 of the Philadelphia Eagles throws against the Seattle Seahawks during the first half at Lincoln Financial Field on November 30, 2020 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. (Photo by Elsa/Getty Images) PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA – NOVEMBER 30: Carson Wentz #11 of the Philadelphia Eagles runs for a first down against the Seattle Seahawks during the second quarter at Lincoln Financial Field on November 30, 2020 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. (Photo by Elsa/Getty Images) Philadelphia Eagles’ Carson Wentz scrambles during the first half of an NFL football game against the Seattle Seahawks, Monday, Nov. 30, 2020, in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Derik Hamilton) PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA – NOVEMBER 30: Travis Fulgham #13 of the Philadelphia Eagles is tackled by Tre Flowers #21 of the Seattle Seahawks during the fourth quarter at Lincoln Financial Field on November 30, 2020 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. (Photo by Elsa/Getty Images) PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA – NOVEMBER 30: Javon Hargrave #93 of the Philadelphia Eagles pressures Russell Wilson #3 of the Seattle Seahawks during the second quarter at Lincoln Financial Field on November 30, 2020 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. (Photo by Mitchell Leff/Getty Images) PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA – NOVEMBER 30: Dallas Goedert #88 of the Philadelphia Eagles runs against the Seattle Seahawks during the fourth quarter at Lincoln Financial Field on November 30, 2020 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. (Photo by Elsa/Getty Images) PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA – NOVEMBER 30: Dallas Goedert #88 of the Philadelphia Eaglesis tackled by the Seattle Seahawks during the fourth quarter at Lincoln Financial Field on November 30, 2020 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. (Photo by Elsa/Getty Images) Seattle Seahawks’ Rasheem Green (94) sacks Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Carson Wentz (11) during the first half of an NFL football game, Monday, Nov. 30, 2020, in Philadelphia. The Seahawks defeated the Eagles (AP Photo/Rich Schultz) PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA – NOVEMBER 30: Head coach Pete Carroll of the Seattle Seahawks talks to his team against the Philadelphia Eagles during the fourth quarter at Lincoln Financial Field on November 30, 2020 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. (Photo by Elsa/Getty Images) Philadelphia Eagles’ Richard Rodgers (85) tries to get past Seattle Seahawks’ K.J. Wright (50) during the second half of an NFL football game, Monday, Nov. 30, 2020, in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Derik Hamilton) Philadelphia Eagles’ Travis Fulgham (13) catches but can’t control the ball in the end zone as Seattle Seahawks’ Jamal Adams (33) defends. The tip was caught by the Eagles’ Richard Rodgers (85) for a 33 yard touchdown catch with 12 seconds remaining in an NFL football game, Monday, Nov. 30, 2020, in Philadelphia. The Seahawks defeated the Eagles (AP Photo/Rich Schultz) Seattle Seahawks’ DK Metcalf, left, is tackled by Philadelphia Eagles’ Darius Slay during the first half of an NFL football game, Monday, Nov. 30, 2020, in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Chris Szagola) PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA – NOVEMBER 30: Russell Wilson #3 of the Seattle Seahawks encourages his teammates at the two minute warning against the Philadelphia Eagles during the fourth quarter at Lincoln Financial Field on November 30, 2020 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. (Photo by Elsa/Getty Images) Seahawks receiver DK Metcalf celebrates after a catch for a first down during the first half of Monday’s game against the Eagles in Philadelphia. Metcalf had 10 catches for 177 yards in Seattle’s 23-17 victory. (AP Photo/Chris Szagola) Philadelphia Eagles’ Dallas Goedert, left, cannot catch a pass against Seattle Seahawks’ Jordyn Brooks during the second half of an NFL football game, Monday, Nov. 30, 2020, in Philadelphia. Brooks was penalized for pass interference on the play. (AP Photo/Derik Hamilton) Seattle Seahawks’ Bobby Wagner (54) breaks up a pass intended for Philadelphia Eagles’ Dallas Goedert (88) during the first half of an NFL football game, Monday, Nov. 30, 2020, in Philadelphia. The Seahawks defeated the Eagles (AP Photo/Rich Schultz) Seattle Seahawks’ Russell Wilson passes during the second half of an NFL football game against the Philadelphia Eagles, Monday, Nov. 30, 2020, in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Derik Hamilton) Philadelphia Eagles’ Fletcher Cox (91) tackles Seattle Seahawks’ Russell Wilson (3) during the first half of an NFL football game, Monday, Nov. 30, 2020, in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Chris Szagola) Philadelphia Eagles’ Carson Wentz walks off the field during the second half of an NFL football game against the Seattle Seahawks, Monday, Nov. 30, 2020, in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Derik Hamilton) Philadelphia Eagles’ Jalen Hurts walk the sidelines during the second half of an NFL football game against the Seattle Seahawks, Monday, Nov. 30, 2020, in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Derik Hamilton) Seattle Seahawks’ Carlos Hyde plays during the second half of an NFL football game against the Philadelphia Eagles, Monday, Nov. 30, 2020, in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Chris Szagola) Philadelphia Eagles’ Carson Wentz, right, and Seattle Seahawks’ Russell Wilson meet after an NFL football game, Monday, Nov. 30, 2020, in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Chris Szagola) Seattle Seahawks’ Quandre Diggs (37) reacts after intercepting a pass by Philadelphia Eagles’ Carson Wentz during the second half of an NFL football game, Monday, Nov. 30, 2020, in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Derik Hamilton) Philadelphia Eagles’ Carson Wentz (11) is tackled by Seattle Seahawks’ Quandre Diggs (37) during the first half of an NFL football game, Monday, Nov. 30, 2020, in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Chris Szagola) Seattle Seahawks’ Russell Wilson plays during the second half of an NFL football game against the Philadelphia Eagles, Monday, Nov. 30, 2020, in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Derik Hamilton) Seattle Seahawks’ Russell Wilson plays during the second half of an NFL football game against the Philadelphia Eagles, Monday, Nov. 30, 2020, in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Derik Hamilton) Seattle Seahawks’ DK Metcalf (14) tries to hurdle Philadelphia Eagles’ Darius Slay (24) during the first half of an NFL football game, Monday, Nov. 30, 2020, in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Chris Szagola) Philadelphia Eagles’ Carson Wentz plays during the second half of an NFL football game against the Seattle Seahawks, Monday, Nov. 30, 2020, in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Chris Szagola) Seattle Seahawks’ Russell Wilson plays during the second half of an NFL football game against the Philadelphia Eagles, Monday, Nov. 30, 2020, in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Derik Hamilton) Seattle Seahawks’ Russell Wilson (3) tries to get away from Philadelphia Eagles’ Javon Hargrave (93) during the second half of an NFL football game, Monday, Nov. 30, 2020, in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Chris Szagola) Seattle Seahawks’ Russell Wilson plays during the second half of an NFL football game against the Philadelphia Eagles, Monday, Nov. 30, 2020, in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Derik Hamilton) Philadelphia Eagles’ Dallas Goedert (88) celebrates after scoring a touchdown during the first half of an NFL football game against the Seattle Seahawks, Monday, Nov. 30, 2020, in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Derik Hamilton) Philadelphia Eagles’ Dallas Goedert (88) celebrates with Alshon Jeffery (17) and Miles Sanders (26) after scoring a touchdown during the first half of an NFL football game against the Seattle Seahawks, Monday, Nov. 30, 2020, in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Chris Szagola) Seattle Seahawks’ Chris Carson rushes during the first half of an NFL football game against the Philadelphia Eagles, Monday, Nov. 30, 2020, in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Derik Hamilton) Seattle Seahawks’ Quandre Diggs reacts after intercepting a pass during the second half of an NFL football game against the Philadelphia Eagles, Monday, Nov. 30, 2020, in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Chris Szagola) Seattle Seahawks’ Jamal Adams (33) reacts after an interception during the second half of an NFL football game against the Philadelphia Eagles, Monday, Nov. 30, 2020, in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Derik Hamilton) Philadelphia Eagles’ Dallas Goedert (88) tries to get past Seattle Seahawks’ Quandre Diggs (37) during the second half of an NFL football game, Monday, Nov. 30, 2020, in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Chris Szagola) Seattle Seahawks’ Russell Wilson (3) passes against Philadelphia Eagles’ Brandon Graham (55) during the second half of an NFL football game, Monday, Nov. 30, 2020, in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Chris Szagola) Philadelphia Eagles’ Carson Wentz (11) is sacked by Seattle Seahawks’ Benson Mayowa (95) during the second half of an NFL football game, Monday, Nov. 30, 2020, in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Chris Szagola) Philadelphia Eagles’ Carson Wentz (11) is tackled by Seattle Seahawks’ Poona Ford (97) during the second half of an NFL football game, Monday, Nov. 30, 2020, in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Chris Szagola) Philadelphia Eagles’ Carson Wentz plays during the second half of an NFL football game against the Seattle Seahawks, Monday, Nov. 30, 2020, in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Derik Hamilton) Philadelphia Eagles’ Carson Wentz walks off the field during the second half of an NFL football game against the Seattle Seahawks, Monday, Nov. 30, 2020, in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Derik Hamilton) Seattle Seahawks’ DK Metcalf (14) catches a pass against Philadelphia Eagles’ Darius Slay (24) during the second half of an NFL football game, Monday, Nov. 30, 2020, in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Derik Hamilton) Seattle Seahawks’ Jason Myers kicks a field goal during the second half of an NFL football game against the Philadelphia Eagles, Monday, Nov. 30, 2020, in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Derik Hamilton) Seattle Seahawks’ Jason Myers kicks a field goal during the second half of an NFL football game against the Philadelphia Eagles, Monday, Nov. 30, 2020, in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Derik Hamilton) Philadelphia Eagles’ Travis Fulgham (13) catches but can’t control the ball in the end zone as Seattle Seahawks’ Jamal Adams (33) defends. The tip was caught by the Eagles’ Richard Rodgers (85) for a 33 yard touchdown catch with 12 seconds remaining in an NFL football game, Monday, Nov. 30, 2020, in Philadelphia. The Seahawks defeated the Eagles (AP Photo/Rich Schultz) Philadelphia Eagles’ Richard Rodgers (85) makes a one handed catch for a 33 yard touchdown on a ball tipped by teammate Travis Fulgham (13) with 12 seconds remaining as Seattle Seahawks’ Jamal Adams (33) defends in an NFL football game, Monday, Nov. 30, 2020, in Philadelphia. The Seahawks defeated the Eagles (AP Photo/Rich Schultz) Philadelphia Eagles’ Richard Rodgers (85) reacts after catching a touchdown pass during the second half of an NFL football game against the Seattle Seahawks, Monday, Nov. 30, 2020, in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Derik Hamilton) Seattle Seahawks’ Shaquem Griffin (49) and Jamal Adams (33) react after an NFL football game against the Philadelphia Eagles, Monday, Nov. 30, 2020, in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Chris Szagola) Show Caption of Expand PHILADELPHIA — DK Metcalf got extra motivation he didn’t even need. Metcalf had 10 catches for 177 yards, Russell Wilson threw for 230 yards and a touchdown and the Seattle Seahawks beat the Philadelphia Eagles, 23-17, on Monday night. Before the game, Metcalf said Eagles defensive coordinator Jim Schwartz, who coached Calvin Johnson in Detroit, compared him to the former Lions star. “I’m getting a little respect, but you know I still got work to do. One of the defensive coaches came up to me and it kind of made me mad that he was like, ‘You know, I was in Detroit with Megatron but you’re not there yet,’” Metcalf said. “In my mind, I’m not trying to be Megatron. I’m trying to be me. So I had a little chip on my shoulder the whole game.” The Seahawks (8-3) moved one game ahead of the Rams in the NFC West. The Eagles (3-7-1) fell a half-game behind the New York Giants and Washington in the woeful NFC East. Carson Wentz didn’t cede many snaps to backup Jalen Hurts but had another rough game. He was 25 of 45 for 215 yards, two touchdowns – one in garbage time – and one interception. Seattle’s defense entered the game allowing the most yards in the NFL and most yards passing but held Philadelphia’s inept offense to 250 yards. Metcalf was on the board when the Eagles took J.J. Arcega-Whiteside in the second round with the 57th pick in 2019. Arcega-Whiteside has 12 career catches and was a healthy inactive before landing on the COVID-19 list. Metcalf, who was the final pick of the second round, had the best game of his rookie year in Seattle’s playoff win at Philadelphia last season and again showed why he’s emerged as one of the best receivers in the NFL. Metcalf’s 52-yard catch on third-and-13 set up Wilson’s 1-yard touchdown pass to David Moore that gave the Seahawks a 7-0 lead. “It’s kind of like coming home, a place that had a chance to draft me but they didn’t so I’ve got to make them pay,” Metcalf said. Cornerback Darius Slay, who followed Metcalf in coverage, called it the worst game of his career. “I lost every 50-50 ball. I let the team down. I gotta play better,” Slay said. Chris Carson made it 14-0 when he bullied his way through Philadelphia’s defense on a 16-yard run. “You know me, I saw that end zone and my game is physical so I wanted to get it in,” Carson said. The Eagles didn’t get a first down until Wentz ran for 20 yards with less than five minutes left in the first half. Wentz scrambled for 13 yards on third-and-5 to keep the drive going and tossed a 3-yard touchdown pass to Dallas Goedert to cut it to 14-6 at halftime. Jake Elliott missed the extra-point attempt wide left. Elliott’s 42-yard field goal cut the deficit to 14-9 in the third quarter. Jason Myers hit one from 44 yards to extend it to 17-9. After a holding call on Cedric Ogbuehi negated a 17-yard touchdown run by Carlos Hyde, Myers connected from 33 yards. He hit another one from 39. Richard Rodgers caught a tipped ball on a desperation heave by Wentz for a 33-yard touchdown in the final minute. Trailing by 11, Eagles coach Doug Pederson passed up a field goal and went for it on fourth-and-4 from the Seattle 15. Wentz’s pass went straight to Seattle’s Quandre Diggs as Goedert turned the other way on the route. The Eagles got a huge stop on Seattle’s opening series. After a pair of unsportsmanlike conduct penalties helped the Seahawks reach the 3, Derek Barnett stuffed Moore for a 5-yard loss on fourth down from the 2. Barnett sacked Wilson on fourth-and-2 from Philadelphia’s 37 on Seattle’s second drive. OWNING PHILLY Wilson is 6-0 against the Eagles and the Seahawks have won seven in a row in the series. NO QB ROTATION Hurts took the snap on two plays. He completed a 6-yard pass to Alshon Jeffery on one and handed off on the other. Wentz was split wide on the running play and on the sideline for the pass. GOING BACKWARD The Eagles had minus-4 yards in the first quarter, matching their worst first quarter in the past 30 seasons (also minus-4 vs Minnesota on Oct. 7, 2018). The last team to have negative yards in the first quarter was Chicago with minus-1 against Philadelphia on Nov. 3, 2019. The Eagles went three-and-out on their first five drives. INJURY REPORT Both teams were missing their starting right tackle. Seattle’s Brandon Shell was inactive because of an ankle injury. Ogbuehi took his spot. Philadelphia’s Lane Johnson is sidelined for the rest of the season with an ankle injury. Matt Pryor started in his place. UP NEXT The Seahawks host the New York Giants (4-7) on Sunday. 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0.943208	Mark Saxon covers the St. Louis Cardinals for ESPN.com. He served as the Dodgers team reporter for ESPNLosAngeles.com. through the 2015 season. He spent six years at the Orange County Register, and began his career at the Oakland Tribune, where he started an 11-year journey covering Major League Baseball. He has also covered colleges, including USC football and UCLA basketball. Follow on Twitter Facebook Twitter Facebook Messenger Pinterest Email print LOS ANGELES -- Mets shortstop Ruben Tejada suffered a fracture to the fibula of his lower right leg in a nasty collision at second base Saturday night in the seventh inning of a Game 2 loss to the Dodgers in the NL Divison Series. Editor's Picks Enough is enough: The takeout slides must end 6yBuster Olney The slide that ruined everybody's night except the Dodgers' 6yDavid Schoenfield Chase Utley's aggressive slide sparks decisive rally for Dodgers in Game 2 6yMark Saxon 2 Related The Dodgers' Chase Utley slid late and hit Tejada hard just as Tejada was turning around to attempt a double play on a grounder hit by Howie Kendrick. Tejada flipped over Utley and landed hard on his left side. The Dodgers went on to score a total of four runs in the inning en route to a 5-2 victory, which tied the series at 1-1. Mets trainers wrapped padding around Tejada's right leg, and he was transported off the field on a cart, giving a little fist pump on his way out. The play proved pivotal in the game. The Dodgers scored the tying run, and after a replay review, the umpires ruled that Tejada had never touched the second-base bag, awarding Utley second. After the game, several Mets players questioned Utley's slide, including left fielder Michael Cuddyer, who said of the play, "That's not a slide. That's a tackle." "We're losing our starting shortstop now for the rest of the playoffs," second baseman Kelly Johnson said. "He's got a broken fibula. It cost us potentially this game. And we don't have anything to show for it. "Chase is playing hard," he said. "He's doing his thing. He's in the moment. That's not the issue. The issue is he hit our shortstop first before hitting dirt. The question is at, one, is that illegal? At what point do we say, 'Hey, man, we missed something here.' We've got rules at home plate to protect our guys. What's the difference? Ruben stuck his neck out there to make a play to try to get the bag and then to turn to make a throw. And before he can get the ball out of the glove he's getting tackled." Mets manager Terry Collins said Wilmer Flores will replace Tejada at shortstop for the rest of the series. Collins wouldn't get into whether he thought Utley's slide was clean or dirty -- "Broke my shortstop's leg, that's all I know," he said -- but he said he thought the umpires were "great" in how they handled the review. "They thought that it's pretty hard to rule that he didn't touch the bag when he hit the shortstop and nobody was tagged, so they have no other call," he said. "So they handled it right." Utley said he defines a "dirty slide" as one in which the base runner comes in with his cleats high or makes contact with the fielder before the runner's body hits the ground to start his slide. He said he wasn't aware Tejada's back was turned before he went after him with the aggressive slide. "The tying run's on third base, I'm going hard to try to break up the double play," Utley said. "I feel terrible that he was injured. I had no intent of hurting him whatsoever." Shortstop Ruben Tejada is taken out on a hard slide by the Dodgers' Chase Utley in the seventh inning in Game 2 of the NLDS last October. After a replay review, Utley was ruled safe and awarded second base. Tejada broke his right leg on the play. Sean M. Haffey/Getty Images Dodgers manager Don Mattingly defended Utley. "I know Chase is not trying to hurt anybody," he said. "He's just playing the game the way he plays it. He plays it hard, he's aggressive." Joe Torre, Major League Baseball's chief baseball officer, said MLB would look into the play and whether it warrants any discipline. "The lateness of the slide, that concerns me," Torre said. "But we're still talking about it. I'm still in charge of determining if it was an over-the-top thing. ... I'm looking at it to see if there's anything that should be done. "I certainly don't feel that he was trying to hurt somebody," he said of Utley. "I think his goal was breaking up a double-play, and in doing that someone broke their leg." Torre also said umpires were correct to award Utley second base after the Dodgers asked for a video review, which determined Tejada did not touch the base on the play. Utley did not touch the base on the slide. "He never needed to touch the base because the umpire called him out," Torre said. "You're correcting the umpire's mistake. In that situation, going to replay and they see the runner never touched the base, but the umpire called him out, by replay rules we can correct the situation and put the runner on the bag." Torre said Tejada was not subject to the protection of the "neighborhood play," which allows fielders to not touch the base but still be credited with the out. The throw Tejada received from second baseman Daniel Murphy took Tejada away from the bag. Utley had entered the game in the seventh as a pinch hitter and singled to right, giving the Dodgers runners at the corners before Kendrick hit a sharp grounder to Daniel Murphy, who flipped it to Tejada. This wasn't the first time Utley and Tejada were involved in a hard play at second base. As a member of the Philadelphia Phillies, Utley had angered Mets players in 2010, when he also upended Tejada at second with an aggressive slide. "He's a second baseman. If he wants guys sliding like that into him, then it's perfectly fine," David Wright said back then. "He knows how to play the game. If he doesn't mind guys coming in like that when he's turning a double play, then we don't have any problem with it. It's a legal slide. It's within the rules. But somebody is going to get hurt." With Tejada expected to be replaced on the roster, Eric Campbell is the most logical player to be added. Eric Young Jr. also is working out at the Mets' complex in Florida and available. The action shifts to Citi Field in New York for Game 3 Monday, when Brett Anderson starts for the Dodgers against the Mets' Matt Harvey in the best-of-five series. The Dodgers' Zack Greinke (1-0) allowed two runs and five hits in seven innings. He struck out eight and walked none a night after teammate Clayton Kershaw fanned 11 while losing his fifth straight postseason game. Kenley Jansen pitched the ninth for the save, completing a five-hitter. Yoenis Cespedes and Michael Conforto hit solo homers in the second, the latter off the right-field pole. Andre Ethier had an RBI double in the fourth. Noah Syndergaard (0-1) gave up three runs and five hits in 6 1/3 innings of his first career postseason start. He struck out nine and walked four in following up Jacob deGrom's 13-strikeout performance in winning Game 1. Eight of Syndergaard's first 36 pitches reached 100 mph or more over the first two innings on an unseasonable 90-degree evening. "Anytime you can go 1-1 against Kershaw and Greinke in their house, I guess we'll take it," Wright said. "But we wanted to get greedy and head back to New York with a 2-0 lead."
0.99874	“What is your greatest weakness?” This question is common in interviews but handling it can be tricky. You do not want to brush this query aside, but, at the same time, you certainly do not want to reveal details that could hurt your chances of getting the job. The key to talking about weaknesses is to choose flaws that do not hurt your chances of getting the job. In other words, they are not directly related to the duties of the position for which you are applying. You can also use the subject of weaknesses to show positivity or a desire to improve. Also, look for opportunities to segue into talking about your strengths. Table of Contents 1 Examples of Professional Weaknesses 1.1 Hard Skills 1.2 Soft Skills 1.3 Interpersonal Skills 2 How to Talk About Weaknesses 2.1 Show Positivity 2.2 Share Strengths 2.3 Talk About Improvements 2.4 Be Truthful Examples of Professional Weaknesses It’s helpful to categorize your weaknesses according to the type of skill or attribute they fall under. You can classify flaws as related to hard skills, soft skills, and interpersonal skills. Regardless of your choice of weakness, you need to make sure that the chosen skill does not directly relate to the skills you need for the job for which you are interviewing. Hard Skills Hard skills are technical skills that you learn through training and experience. You often need specific technical skills to qualify for a job, so you should not include the abilities necessary for the position in your list of weaknesses. If your job requires specialized knowledge, you can populate your list of flaws with soft skills. Advanced skills: Use any advanced subject that is somewhat related to the job. If your work involves such advanced knowledge, you do not want to include it in your list of weaknesses. However, if it is not necessary, you could get away with using it as a weakness. One of the advantages of doing this is that you can segue into highlighting your knowledge of relevant fundamentals. Written communication: Unless your job involves writing, you may be able to include writing as an area in which you need improvement. Written communication is a skill that you can improve with practice, so you may want to mention your desire for growth as a writer. You could also use this opportunity to talk about how you are skilled in other forms of communication, such as verbal communication or creating PowerPoint presentations. Unrelated computer languages: If you are applying for a tech job, the interviewer will likely ask you about your programming skills. The position will require knowledge of specific computer systems and languages. Other languages are not necessary for this job. While interviewing for a front-end developer position, for example, you could mention the fact that you do not know back-end or database languages such as Python, Ruby, or SQL. Unrelated computer programs: Computer programs are required knowledge for many jobs, including those outside of the tech sector. For example, most office employees need to know Microsoft Office. If you know that the company uses Microsoft Office, for example, you can list a lack of knowledge of Google’s G Suite as a weakness. Budgeting or finance: You could choose a general skill, such as budgeting, as long as it is not part of the duties of the job for which you are applying. You may need this type of skill later in your career if you reach a management position. Use your lack of financial expertise to talk about your desire to improve so that you can achieve your goals of getting promoted to a senior position. Soft Skills Soft skills are personal attributes you develop over time. Sometimes, you can choose soft-skill weaknesses that the interviewer may also interpret as strengths. Also, since soft skills are not related to any specific training, mention your plans to make improvements in your areas of weakness. “I’m too detail-oriented.” List attention to detail as a weakness by explaining that you pay too much attention to details. An interviewer may interpret this as a negative and think that you get bogged down in particulars of a project. However, they can also see it as a positive because they may think you can help their company avoid costly mistakes. “I’m impatient when I get behind schedule.” This weakness is a disqualifying negative for some jobs, such as those involving heavy equipment. In these positions, impatience may be dangerous. However, for other jobs, being impatient is a positive attribute. The interviewer may interpret it to mean that you will push yourself and others to get the job done when things are behind schedule. “I’m always over-prepared.” This trait may be detrimental if you are applying for a job in a fast-paced environment where you need to move from task to task quickly. However, employers often decide that they prefer over-prepared workers to underprepared employees who are not ready for the challenges of the job. “I find it challenging to maintain a work-life balance.” Explain that you feel a dedication to your career, and you sometimes take work home with you, which can interfere with your social life or other aspects of your personal life. Many modern companies are aware of the need for work-life balance, but they would not see this weakness as a disqualifying negative. “I can’t say no to assignments and tasks.” While this trait may lead to missed deadlines and burnout, it also illustrates a strong work ethic and independence. Interpersonal Skills Interpersonal skills focus on how you relate to other people in the workplace. Talking about weaknesses in this area can sometimes be tricky, because most jobs require at least some peer-to-peer interactions. Communication: In some careers, your communication with others will take place on a project management app or via email. In these instances, you may want to list verbal communication as a weakness. You can explain that you prefer to put your ideas in writing so that you’re sure they are clear. Public speaking: If your job does not involve presentations or public speaking, then you may safely use this soft skill as one of your weaknesses. Even if you have to give an occasional presentation, say that you are looking forward to the chance to improve. Leadership skills: If you are not applying for a management position, you may want to list a lack of leadership skills among your weaknesses. If leadership is not a job requirement, then you will not get disqualified for lacking the skills. Also, this choice of weakness will give you a chance to express a desire to develop leadership skills. Being too honest: Being too honest can be a weakness if you have to work as part of a team. However, in general, employers appreciate a degree of honesty and they may value employees who “tell it like it is.” You can mention that you are aware of this shortcoming and working to find more tactful ways to communicate. Never asking for help: This weakness may be detrimental because not asking for help can ultimately lead to more mistakes and slow down projects. At the same time, it brings to mind positive attributes such as independence and a willingness to work through problems for yourself. How to Talk About Weaknesses The key to talking about weaknesses during an interview is to prepare beforehand. In addition to practicing what you are going to say, you need to look at the job ad and research the company’s mission and culture to make sure your weaknesses are not related to the job requirements or the company’s values. With proper planning, you could also use your weaknesses to discuss related strengths and positive attributes. Show Positivity If you plan correctly, you can positively frame your weaknesses. Discuss your flaws, but also talk about how they’re strengths in some circumstances. For example, your impatience helps you meet deadlines for every project because you work harder and push your coworkers when you get behind schedule. Share Strengths Take the opportunity to discuss related strengths that you have developed to overcome your weaknesses. You can talk about how you have overcome a vulnerability in the past because of a skill or trait. For example, talk about overcoming a lack of writing skill because you have excellent verbal communication skills. Talk About Improvements While addressing a flaw, share your desire for improvement. You can even provide details about your plan for improving your weaknesses and turning them into strengths. In some cases, you may also be able to give an example of how you have already gotten better in a weak area. This step is vital because it shows the interviewer that you are willing to make an effort to improve. Be Truthful Interviewers can tell if you are evasive or untruthful when talking about your weaknesses. 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0.999786	We use cookies to ensure you have the best browsing experience on our website. Please read our cookie policy for more information about how we use cookies. Ok Prepare NEW Certify Compete Career Fair Hiring developers? Log In Sign Up Prepare Algorithms Dynamic Programming The Longest Common Subsequence The Longest Common Subsequence Problem Submissions Leaderboard Discussions Editorial A subsequence is a sequence that can be derived from another sequence by deleting some elements without changing the order of the remaining elements. Longest common subsequence (LCS) of 2 sequences is a subsequence, with maximal length, which is common to both the sequences. Given two sequences of integers, and , find the longest common subsequence and print it as a line of space-separated integers. If there are multiple common subsequences with the same maximum length, print any one of them. In case multiple solutions exist, print any of them. It is guaranteed that at least one non-empty common subsequence will exist. Recommended References This Youtube video tutorial explains the problem and its solution quite well. Function Description Complete the longestCommonSubsequence function in the editor below. It should return an integer array of a longest common subsequence. longestCommonSubsequence has the following parameter(s): a: an array of integers b: an array of integers Input Format The first line contains two space separated integers and , the sizes of sequences and . The next line contains space-separated integers . The next line contains space-separated integers . Constraints Constraints Output Format Print the longest common subsequence as a series of space-separated integers on one line. In case of multiple valid answers, print any one of them. Sample Input 5 6 1 2 3 4 1 3 4 1 2 1 3 Sample Output 1 2 3 Explanation There is no common subsequence with length larger than 3. And "1 2 3", "1 2 1", "3 4 1" are all correct answers.
0.992439	Broadcaster and Primrose Hill resident Dame Joan Bakewell has urged parliament to back proposals allowing doctors to help those suffering terminal illnesses end their own lives. The 81-year-old presenter and campaigner – who says she carries a Do Not Resuscitate card with her at all times – said there was now “a groundswell” of public support for legalising assisted suicide and suggested doctors were currently “living in fear of being likened to Harold Shipman” should they discuss the issue with patients. A passionate debate is poised to take off over the next few months as the Assisted Dying Bill goes through parliament. Lord Falconer’s proposals do away with parts of the 1961 Suicide Act –which outlaw helping an individual take their own life – and allow doctors to prescribe a lethal dose of drugs to consenting, terminally ill patients with less than six months to live. Last week, sources within the government suggested MPs would be given a free vote on the bill. Dame Joan said it was “essential everyone be allowed to vote on their own conscience”. “Once you’ve been through the situation yourself, with a friend or loved one, you realise how important an issue it is,” she told the Ham&High. Most Read expand_more More 1 'Unimaginable loss': Father and daughter stabbed to death in north London 2 Covid-19: Omicron cases confirmed in Haringey and Barnet 3 Covid-19: Omicron variant case confirmed in Camden 4 Camden Market has major makeover with new cinema, shops and food stalls 5 Masked-up Boris Johnson poses for selfies at Wood Green care centre 6 Barnet chemist named independent pharmacy of the year 7 Hampstead Heath to host first Christmas Fayre 8 Two people flee in Finchley flat fire caused by faulty radiator 9 Stunning light trail wraps up Kenwood like a giant Christmas present 10 Highgate's new butcher offers wine pairing and cooking advice “We live in a world where people have the right to choose all sorts of things in their lives but not how they die. There are strong opinions on both sides, but I am clear in my own support of the bill. “I carry a Do Not Resuscitate card with me at all times and I’ve made sure my family know what my wishes are should the eventuality arise. “But the protection for doctors is also important. “The case of Harold Shipman [the doctor found guilty of killing 15 of his patients in 2000] casts a shadow over all of this. “Doctors are scared of being branded as killers should they be allowed to help their patients end their suffering. “But sufferers are already being killed – not by doctors, but by their disease.” The bill comes after guidelines were issued four years ago which went some way towards protecting those who acted “out of compassion”. Then director of public prosecutions Sir Keir Starmer – whose office published the guidelines – said he could not go further as his hands were tied by the old legislation. But a 2013 YouGov poll has since found more than three quarters of people would now support a radical change in the law in favour of legalising assisted suicide. It has led campaigning groups on both sides to start upping their war of words. “People who want to end their suffering have been forced underground,” said Mickey Charouneau, a spokesman for Dignity in Dying, which supports assisted suicide. “One person every fortnight is travelling to Switzerland from the UK to end their lives – Lord Falconer’s proposals will help end that absurdity. “The bill contains clear safeguards and similar measures have been successfully adopted in other countries around the world.” But Care Not Killing, a UK-based alliance of disability groups, healthcare providers and faith-based bodies, suggested changes in the law could lead to pressure on the vulnerable. “Any change in the law to allow assisted suicide or euthanasia would place pressure on vulnerable people to end their lives for fear of being a financial, emotional or care burden upon others,” it said. “The present law making assisted suicide and euthanasia illegal is clear and right and does not need changing.” The House of Lords is set to debate the issue in four months time. Become a Supporter This newspaper has been a central part of community life for many years. Our industry faces testing times, which is why we're asking for your support. Every contribution will help us continue to produce local journalism that makes a measurable difference to our community.
0.890685	Unicompartmental knee replacement is a minimally invasive surgery in which only the damaged compartment of the knee is replaced with an implant. It is also called a partial knee replacement. The knee can be divided into three compartments: patellofemoral, the compartment in front of the knee between the knee cap and thigh bone, medial compartment, on the inside portion of the knee, and lateral compartment which is the area on the outside portion of the knee joint. Traditionally, total knee replacement was commonly indicated for severe osteoarthritis of the knee. In total knee replacement, all worn out or damaged surfaces of the knee joint are removed and replaced with new artificial parts. Partial knee replacement is a surgical option if your arthritis is confined to a single compartment of your knee. Disease Overview Arthritis is inflammation of a joint causing pain, swelling (inflammation), and stiffness. Osteoarthritis is the most common form of knee arthritis in which the joint cartilage gradually wears away. It most often affects older people. In a normal joint, articular cartilage allows for smooth movement within the joint, where as in an arthritic knee the cartilage itself becomes thinner or completely absent. In addition, the bones become thicker around the edges of the joint and may form bony “spurs”. All of these factors can cause pain and restricted range of motion in the joint. Causes The exact cause is unknown, however there are a number of factors that are commonly associated with the onset of arthritis and may include: Injury or trauma to the joint Fractures of the knee joint Increased body weight Repetitive overuse Joint infection Inflammation of the joint Connective tissue disorders Symptoms Arthritis of the knees can cause knee pain, which may increase after activities such as walking, stair climbing, or kneeling. The joint may become stiff and swollen, limiting the range of motion. Knee deformities such as knock-knees and bow-legs may also occur. Diagnosis Your doctor will diagnose osteoarthritis based on the medical history, physical examination, and X-rays. X-rays typically show a narrowing of joint space in the arthritic knee. Surgical procedure Your doctor may recommend surgery if non-surgical treatment options such as medications, injections, and physical therapy have failed to relieve the symptoms. During the surgery, a small incision is made over the knee to expose the knee joint. Your surgeon will remove only the damaged part of the meniscus and place the implant into the bone by slightly shaping the shin bone and the thigh bone. The plastic component is placed into the new prepared area and is secured with bone cement. Now the damaged part of the femur or thigh bone is removed to accommodate the new metal component which is fixed in place using bone cement. Once the femoral and tibial components are fixed in proper place the knee is taken through a range of movements. The muscles and tendons are then repaired and the incision is closed. Post-Operative Care You may walk with the help of a walker or cane for the first 1-2 weeks after surgery. A physical therapist will advise you on an exercise program to follow for 4 to 6 months to help maintain range of motion and restore your strength. You may perform exercises such as walking, swimming and biking but high impact activities such as jogging should be avoided. Risks and Complications Possible risks and complications associated with unicompartmental knee replacement include: Knee stiffness Infection Blood clots (Deep vein thrombosis) Nerve and blood vessel damage Ligament injuries Patella (kneecap) dislocation Plastic liner wears out Loosening of the implant Advantages The advantages of Unicompartmental Knee Replacement over Total Knee Replacement include: Smaller incision Less blood loss Quick recovery Less post-operative pain Better overall range of motion Feels more like a natural knee Unicompartmental knee replacement, also called a partial knee replacement is surgery to treat arthritis which is limited to one of the knee compartments. During the surgery, only the damaged compartment of the knee is removed and replaced with metal and plastic, leaving the remaining healthy cartilage and bone.
0.999999	The "boondocks" or "boonies" refers to places that are in the middle of nowhere. But few people know that the phrase was made mainstream by a fatal military training accident. "Ugh, I have to visit my aunt out in the boondocks this weekend." How often have you said or heard something similar? For more than half a century, Americans have used the phrase "the boondocks" or "the boonies" to indicate that a place was in the middle of nowhere. However, few people realize that the phrase is a relic of American military occupation in the Philippines, and that it was later brought to mainstream attention because of a now largely forgotten, fatal training accident on Parris Island. First, some history: The 1890s were a troubled time for the Philippines and marked by several conflicts, and the 1896 Philippine Revolution marked the start of the country's fight for independence from Spain. The United States would go on to acquire the Philippines from Spain in 1898 following the signing of the Treaty of Paris, which ended the Spanish-American War. The Philippine-American War immediately followed a year later and would continue until 1902. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the phrase "the boondocks" is derived from the Tagalog word bundok, which means mountain. (Tagalog is one of the two official languages of the Philippines; the other is English.) American soldiers stationed in the Philippines adopted the word in the early 1900s, shifting the meaning to refer to "an isolated or wild region." Some might wonder why soldiers picked up on the Tagalog word for mountain, rather than another term. The Philippine-American War was a brutal conflict, resulting in the deaths of more than 4,200 American soldiers and over 20,000 Filipino fighters. The Filipino combatants, led by Emilio Aguinaldo, adopted guerrilla warfare tactics in late 1899 after more traditional warfare tactics proved ineffective to them. The combatants would retreat into the jungles and mountains after the surprise attacks. (The U.S. Department of State's Office of the Historian notes that American soldiers would burn entire villages down, torture suspected militants and force civilians to live in camps.) Veterans of the Philippines conflict brought the term "the boondocks" back to the U.S. with them, and the term began to be used by military personnel both stateside and in the Philippines. By 1944, the phrase was firmly entrenched in the lingo of the armed forces, and the phrase "out in the boondocks" appeared in that year's Marine Corps Reader. But while the phrase would occasionally appear in newspaper coverage of the military in the early 1950s, it wasn't until the aftermath of the events of April 8, 1956, that the average American heard of "the boondocks." That night, Staff Sgt. Matthew McKeon roused his platoon and ordered the men to march to Ribbon Creek on Parris Island, in South Carolina. The sergeant then jumped into the creek and ordered the recruits to follow, forcing them to march across the creek with him. Chaos soon followed when many of the recruits were swept away. Six of the young Marines drowned. The Ribbon Creek drownings created a media firestorm and a national conversation about how Marines were trained. Several newspapers and magazines covered every detail of McKeon's subsequent court-martial and trial. McKeon was charged with manslaughter, cruelty and drinking in violation of regulations. The word "boondocks" was frequently used in the coverage of the incident, with newspapers noting that McKeon led his platoon "out into the boondocks and eventually into tragedy." Recruit Richard W. Asker, who was 17 at the time, gave this description of what happened: "[T]he instructor said we were going out in the boondocks. We thought he was kidding, because we were all laughing. Then he told us to fall out." Defended by the civilian lawyer Emile Zola Berman (who in 1969 would join Sirhan Sirhan's defense team), McKeon would eventually be acquitted of the manslaughter and oppression-of-troops charges and was found guilty of negligent homicide and drinking on duty. He was originally fined $270, reduced in rank to private, sentenced to nine months of hard labor and given a bad conduct discharge. These charges were later reduced to three months of hard labor and no fine, and he was allowed to remain in the Marine Corps. McKeon died in 2003 at the age of 79. Given the emotionally charged associations that many people had with "the boondocks" in the 1950s because of Ribbon Creek, it is surprising how quickly the public associations with the word began to shift. A little less than a decade after the Ribbon Creek tragedy, singer Billy Joe Royal reached No. 9 on the Billboard charts in 1965 with his song "Down in the Boondocks," the lyrics of which detail the story of a young man who strives "to find a way, to move from this old shack." Royal's song reflects the rural American associations most people have with the term to this day. Perhaps the most famous pop culture reference to the boondocks was the comic strip created by Aaron McGruder in 1996. The strip followed the stories of two young boys who leave the South Side of Chicago to live with their grandfather in a sleepy and predominantly white suburb in Maryland. The comic was adapted into an animated television series in 2005. More than half a century after the Ribbon Creek incident, the definition of "the boondocks" had completely shifted from its military-based meaning to one that embraced the American heartland. Perhaps nothing reflects how the boondocks is now equated to rural America better than the lyrics of the country group Little Big Town's 2005 song "Boondocks": "I feel no shame I'm proud of where I came from I was born and raised in the boondocks One thing I know No matter where I go I keep my heart and soul in the boondocks" Copyright 2021 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org. NPR News Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Lakshmi Gandhi Sponsorship for Local Businesses Special rates and packages Learn More Submit Your PSA Please review KALW's PSA Guidelines, then use the form below to submit your request. KALW holds final editorial approval for all PSAs. If your…
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0.99996	Editor’s choice Celebrity news Daily TV & Radio TV & Radio features Showbiz features Books Film Music Theatre My culture fix Femail Editor's choice Femail features Real life Relationships Fashion Beauty Shopping Mind & soul Health Editor's choice Health news Medical matters Coronavirus Video & audio Weight loss Mental health Fitness Medical miscellaneous Health tests Health guides Health recipes Fast 800 diet Weight Watchers Food Editor’s choice Latest recipes Cook-along videos Features & columns Foodie fun Drinking Books & gadgets Food guides Money Editor's choice City & finance Personal finance Investments Property Travel Editor's choice Staycations Cruise European breaks Long haul Travel Notes Weekend Editor's choice All of Weekend YOU Editor's choice All of YOU Videos Podcasts Newsletters Hi Sign In Subscribe My Account Print Edition © Copyright 2021 v3.9.3 - d238e657 Showbiz / Celebrity news Geri Horner’s brother Max Halliwell dies suddenly aged 54 The former singer was close to her brother, a green technology company executive TILLY ARMSTRONG November 24, 2021 Geri Horner has said she is ‘utterly broken’ after her older brother Max died suddenly at the age of 54. The former Spice Girl’s sibling collapsed at his home in Berkhamsted, Herefordshire, last week before being taken into intensive care, where he died. A Hertfordshire Police spokesman said: ‘Police were called at 9.40am on Wednesday, November 17, to a report of concern for the welfare of a man at a residential property in Berkhamsted. ‘Officers, along with the East of England Ambulance Service, attended the scene. The man was located and taken to hospital for treatment, where he sadly later died. His death is being treated as non-suspicious and will be referred to the coroner.’ Mrs Horner, 49, was reportedly in the Middle East with her husband Christian at the time. The former singer was close to her brother, a green technology company executive, and he helped her escape the UK after she quit The Spice Girls at the height of their fame in 1998. Her father Laurence also died suddenly, from a heart attack, in 1993, when she was 21. Mr Halliwell spoke about their childhood during an appearance on Mrs Horner’s episode of Piers Morgan’s Life Stories in 2010, in which he described the former singer as a ‘daddy’s girl’. Mr Halliwell helped the star escape the UK after she quit The Spice Girls He said: ‘Young Geri was always wanting to be the centre of attention. ‘I think Geri doted heavily on her father. Maybe because of the attention that my father gave her as regards to her potential. ‘He obviously saw something early on, so I’d call her a bit of a daddy’s girl, definitely.’ She grew up in Watford, Hertfordshire, with Mr Halliwell and their sister Natalie. A source told The Sun that she ‘barely knows what to say or think just now – she loved him dearly’. They added: ‘This is the most awful, devastating, heartbreaking news and Geri is utterly broken by it. ‘It has been a terribly traumatic time since the moment she heard Max had been taken to hospital, and the worst outcome which everybody close to the family hoped might not be.’
0.999999	If you want to create long-lasting change in your life and move closer to the life you envision for yourself, beginning therapy with me can be the perfect place to start. Why? Because Cognitive Behavioral Therapy involves a process of inner exploration of your thoughts and feelings leading to a deeper understanding of how you are, and how you relate to others and to the world in general. By working together, you and I will be able to identify and understand any negative patterns and behaviors that you are engaging in and replace them with healthier, more beneficial skills and beliefs that will help you move closer to the life you envision for yourself. Although therapy doesn't come with guarantees, with intentional and purposeful work, you can be assured that some of the benefits of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy include: Relief from anxiety, depression, and chronic worry Increased capacity to manage stress and solve problems, and the courage to make life-changing decisions facing you Clarity about what you truly want and discover more meaning and purpose in your life Greater connection and satisfaction in your relationships, especially when it comes to effectively communicating and navigating differences with close others An increased capacity to resiliently handle life challenges Increased self-awareness, self-understanding, and gratitude for what you have and who you are Ability to finally move forward after serious losses and setbacks And a daily life that includes peace of mind, more joy, and a greater degree of self-confidence. A life that genuinely feels good on the inside
0.999997	I was so pleased to see that Sports Relief are raising awareness about mums AND dads who have experienced maternal mental health issues, it's something that is very close to my heart. Almost four year's ago I gave birth to my beautiful and cheeky little girl Darcie. Unfortunately, I didn't have a very positive birthing experience. Actually, I had such a traumatic birth it lead to me developing a mild case of PTS and anxiety. To cut a long story short, I was induced due to worries that my placenta was failing and the induction process overstimulated me so much so that both me and Darcie became very distressed. So a very dramatic emergency c-section (where I was put to sleep) entailed. Of course, this had a massive effect on me. At the time I was so out of it, I didn't really understand what was happening. My memories are as follows... I hear an alarm. I look over at Jamie. He is crying. They tell me to "kiss him goodbye". I hear a midwife say "Kay, we need to perform an emergency c-section to make sure you and the baby are safe". I remember being wheeled, very quickly, down the corridors. I enter the theatre room and all I remember was focusing on the light above me. They paint iodine on my stomach. I suddenly panic that I can feel them do this and shout "Why am I not asleep?". The anaesthetist then tells me I will be soon. The next thing I wake up in a recovery room asking what the hell happened. To this day, I still don't really know what went wrong. There is something I find even more upsetting, was how my husband must have felt. I remember him looking so scared. I had only ever seen him cry twice in the whole of our relationship. Once when his nan passed away and another when his mum became seriously ill. So at the time I did think "shit, this must be serious.". He was left on his own in the delivery room the entire time. I just asked him how long for as I write this and he said, "it felt like the longest wait of my life". His words that summed up the experience include, worried, scared, alone and something that surprised me was guilty. Guilty that he had made me pregnant, that he had put me in this situation. This is the first time he has said these words to me and it has really shocked me. Jamie felt so alone that he called my mum, he couldn't get his words out so I think my mum also may have had a panic attack too! I feel angry that he was left alone in that situation, no-one to console him, to tell him it would be ok. It must be so very frightening to see a loved one go through a traumatic birth knowing full well there is nothing they can do. Luckily, Jamie is a tough old cookie and this hasn't left him with any scars. But for those men who find it difficult to overcome, must find it a difficult thing to discuss. I'm so pleased that more and more people are starting to discuss the male side of maternal mental health issues, I feel a lot of men put walls up around them when it comes to mental health issues - and this needs to stop. I feel now that more and more women are feeling more confident about talking about their experiences, I hope that now men can do the same in order for them to seek support if they need to. So well done Sports Relief, such a great campaign. 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0.954819	We use cookies to enhance your experience. By continuing to browse this site you agree to our use of cookies. More info. Accept Cookie Settings Medical Home Life Sciences Home Become a Member Search Medical Home Life Sciences Home About COVID-19 News Health A-Z Drugs Medical Devices Interviews White Papers More... 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Contact Meet the Team Advertise Search White Papers MediKnowledge Newsletters Health & Personal Care Contact Meet the Team Advertise Search Webinars Contact Meet the Team Advertise Search Menu Plant flavonols significantly reduce Alzheimer’s risk Download PDF Copy By Dr. Liji Thomas, MDFeb 2 2020 A new study published in the journal Neurology in January 2020 concludes that increasing the intake of plant flavonols steeply reduces the risk of Alzheimer’s dementia (AD) by up to a half. In other words, AD could be prevented in many people simply by regularly eating and drinking more foods containing these compounds such as tea, oranges and broccoli. Image Credit: Peangdao / Shutterstock Alzheimer’s disease AD is a progressive brain disorder in which the individual loses cognitive skills, including memory and thinking skills, and the ability to perform simple tasks. It is by far the leading cause of such disorders and affects over 5 million Americans. Related Stories Breakthrough discovery paves the way for brain-like computers Few-foods diet leads to a significant decrease in ADHD symptoms Combination of two targeted drugs shows "clinically meaningful" activity in some malignant brain tumors One study was carried out on over 900 people, who were part of a community-wide ongoing larger research project called the Rush Memory and Aging (MAP) Project. These participants were assessed yearly for their neurologic health and dietary patterns, for an average of 6 years, but some for as long as 12 years. The average age was 81 years, and 3 out of 4 were female. The findings In the first study, 220/921 participants developed AD during the study. The risk of AD fell with greater intake of flavonols. This finding held good even after the researchers adjusted for other health-associated factors – because those with the highest total flavonol intake were also the best educated, most active and took part in more cognitive activities. They also accounted for genetic factors like the presence of the APOE4 gene, and for cardiovascular risk factors that could influence the risk of AD, such as diabetes mellitus, history of heart attack, or stroke, or hypertension. When classified into five groups based on decreasing flavonol intake, the participants in the first group (highest intake) consumed over 15 mg of flavonols a day. Compared to those in the lowest fifth (about 5 mg a day), these individuals showed an approximately 50% reduction in AD risk. In concrete terms, 28 of 186 patients in the highest-intake group developed AD, vs. 54 of 182 in the lowest-intake group. With respect to individual flavonols, kaempferol intake was linked to a reduction of almost 50%, and both myricetin and isorhamnetin by 40% each. A fourth flavonol, called quercetin, had no noticeable effect on AD risk. Participants with the highest flavonol intake drank about one cup of black tea a day. Kale, and about a glass of red wine each day, could also supply flavonols. Sources of flavonols Kaempferol is richly present in green leafy vegetables, including spinach, broccoli, beans, tea and kale – and also in tea. Isorhamnetin-rich foods include olive oil, red wine, pears and tomato sauce. Myricetin is found in tea, kale, oranges, tomatoes and red wine. Researcher Thomas Holland says, “More research is needed to confirm these results, but these are promising findings. Eating more fruits and vegetables and drinking more tea could be a fairly inexpensive and easy way for people to help stave off Alzheimer's dementia.” Implications Many scientists disagree with the emphasis on flavonols. Though these were thought to have antioxidant activity in the body, this theory was discredited many decades earlier. Antioxidant activity ceases when they are ingested and subjected to the activity of enzymes in the digestive tract. They point out that flavonols are found in many plants, fruits and vegetables, which have been associated with good health for centuries. Nutritionists say that the AD-delaying effects of such foods are likely due to other plant chemicals which are relatively more abundant. On the other hand, taking flavonol pills or tea extracts is unlikely to produce the same healthful effect, and overdoses could be counterproductive. This is not to say that eating more flavonol-rich foods or drinking a cup of black tea in the morning would hurt, since any foods containing these chemicals would also contain many more healthful compounds including vitamins, minerals and plant fiber. Holland makes a valid point with his conclusion: “'With the elderly population increasing worldwide, any decrease in the number of people with this devastating disease, or even delaying it for a few years, could have an enormous benefit on public health.” Journal reference: Dietary flavonols and risk of Alzheimer dementia Thomas M. Holland, Puja Agarwal, Yamin Wang, Sue E. Leurgans, David A. Bennett, Sarah L. Booth, Martha Clare Morris Neurology Jan 2020, 10.1212/WNL.0000000000008981; DOI: 10.1212/WNL.0000000000008981, https://n.neurology.org/content/early/2020/01/29/WNL.0000000000008981 Posted in: Men's Health News \| Medical Research News \| Women's Health News Tags: Aging, Alzheimer's Disease, Antioxidant, Brain, Broccoli, Cardiology, Chemicals, Dementia, Diabetes, Diabetes Mellitus, Endocrinology, Gene, Genetic, Heart, Heart Attack, Minerals, Neurology, Olive Oil, Public Health, Quercetin, Red Wine, Research, Research Project, Stroke, Tea, Tomato, Vegetables, Vitamins, Wine Comments (0) Written by Dr. Liji Thomas Dr. Liji Thomas is an OB-GYN, who graduated from the Government Medical College, University of Calicut, Kerala, in 2001. Liji practiced as a full-time consultant in obstetrics/gynecology in a private hospital for a few years following her graduation. She has counseled hundreds of patients facing issues from pregnancy-related problems and infertility, and has been in charge of over 2,000 deliveries, striving always to achieve a normal delivery rather than operative. Download PDF Copy Read in: EnglishEspañolFrançaisPortuguêsItaliano Citations Please use one of the following formats to cite this article in your essay, paper or report: APA Thomas, Liji. (2020, February 02). Plant flavonols significantly reduce Alzheimer’s risk. News-Medical. Retrieved on November 30, 2021 from https://www.news-medical.net/news/20200202/Plant-flavonols-significantly-reduce-Alzheimers-risk.aspx. MLA Thomas, Liji. "Plant flavonols significantly reduce Alzheimer’s risk". News-Medical. 30 November 2021. <https://www.news-medical.net/news/20200202/Plant-flavonols-significantly-reduce-Alzheimers-risk.aspx>. Chicago Thomas, Liji. "Plant flavonols significantly reduce Alzheimer’s risk". 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0.999999	Opinion ColumnistOpinion Columnist Represents the opinion of the author who is either a paid columnist or an unpaid guest columnist. Post-pandemic California: Comeback or decline? Share this: Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window) Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window) Click to print (Opens in new window) Governor Gavin Newsom held a press conference to talk about the nation’s largest rent relief program made possible by the California Comeback Plan, a $5.2 billion investment helping low-income Californians cover 100 percent of their back-rent and rent for several months into the future. The event was held in Bell Gardens on Wednesday, July 14, 2021 where people were getting help filling out their application. (Photo by Brittany Murray, Press-Telegram/SCNG) By Dan Walters \| PUBLISHED: October 18, 2021 at 8:54 a.m. \| UPDATED: October 18, 2021 at 8:54 a.m. The COVID-19 pandemic has wrought what appear to be permanent social and economic changes and nowhere is that more evident than in California. Its disproportionate impact has laid bare, and even deepened, its socioeconomic fault lines — particularly ever-widening gaps between a mostly white and Asian overclass and a mostly Black and Latino underclass — that belie its conceits about mobility and inclusion. Low-income workers in sectors that required physical presence, such as agriculture and logistics, ran a much-greater risk of infection, and many of them lost their jobs altogether. Meanwhile, workers in jobs that could be done remotely via computer safely used home offices and saw their incomes continue. The state’s clumsy, politics-saturated handling of public education during the pandemic left millions of poor, non-white students to largely fend for themselves while schools serving affluent communities adjusted more adroitly. California’s endemic housing shortage worsened, driving rents and home prices ever-higher and eroding the ability of Californians to house themselves and their families. The state is still hundreds of thousands of jobs short of returning to pre-pandemic employment levels. Our unemployment rate is one of the nation’s highest and our poverty rate, adjusted for the cost of living, is still the highest. These disturbing trends raise a question: Has California reached a plateau and perhaps begun to decline, or is it, as Gov. Gavin Newsom proclaims, making a “comeback” of historic proportions? A sobering poll of residents of the San Francisco Bay Area, the state’s most important economic engine, frames the issue. Joint Venture Silicon Valley and the Bay Area News Group commissioned the poll which found widespread dissatisfaction with the region’s economic and social life and an inclination toward going elsewhere. The poll found that 71% of respondents feel the quality of life in the Bay Area has grown worse over the past five years. A slight majority say they are likely to leave the Bay Area in the next few years, most citing high housing and other living costs and deteriorating quality of life. Joint Venture president Russell Hancock calls it “a smothering amount of anxiety.” The Bay Area’s dissatisfaction and pessimism is significant because its residents are overwhelmingly blue politically in a state dominated by the Democratic Party. One would expect to feel such negative vibes in the rural counties that voted to recall Newsom last month, but finding them in the Bay Area should be a political wakeup call. A new study by Stanford University’s Institute for Economic Policy Research should be another. It delves into the differences between California and its economic and ideological arch-rival, Texas. The study confirms what we already assumed, that California is a high-taxing and high-spending state while taxes are much lower in Texas and so is public spending. However, while California leads Texas in some measures, such as health care coverage, it also falls short of its rival in other key indices. Related Articles Justice served in senseless Arbery murder Drought has big impacts on California agriculture What next after this time of divisiveness? Thankful for what this Thanksgiving?: Letters California is awesome Despite much-lower school spending, Texas scores better than California in K-12 academic achievement. Its standing on homelessness, and housing availability and prices is better. Texas locks up more criminals, relatively, but also has a lower violent crime rate. 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0.998482	The youths, who were charged with crimes as adults, have spent at least 23 hours a day locked in windowless stalls without adequate, constitutionally required educational services, the lawsuit says. Share story By Jessica Lee Seattle Times staff reporter A group of teens in custody at King County’s Maleng Regional Justice Center (RJC) and their guardians have filed a federal lawsuit against the county after the teens allegedly spent days or months in solitary confinement. Claiming King County’s practices violate equal-protection clauses and constitutional guarantees, the 38-page complaint prepared by a Seattle law firm seeks to end the county’s practice of putting 16-year-olds and 17-year-olds in solitary confinement. The complaint applies to teens in King County whom prosecutors have charged with crimes as adults, meaning they bypass the juvenile-court process due to the violent or extreme nature of their crimes. The suit also alleges the RJC, in Kent, unlawfully denies those teens proper educational services while in custody. Most Read Local Stories Kshama Sawant recall election is a high-stakes moment for Seattle A sea turtle found off Washington's coast, cold and clinging to life, recovers at Seattle Aquarium WATCH It's been the wettest early fall on record in the Seattle area — and more rain is coming Jury awards $7 million to former public defender stalked by client, finds King County liable for hostile work environment Coronavirus daily news updates, November 29: What to know today about COVID-19 in the Seattle area, Washington state and the world VIEW “Children held in isolation have little to nothing to do in their cells: no meaningful human interaction, little to no educational activities, no music or television, little access even to reading or writing materials,” the firm says. “When allowed out of their cells, any ‘recreation’ takes place alone in an empty, concrete pen.” In response to requests for comment from the county Tuesday, a spokesman for King County Executive Dow Constantine responded via email. “We just received the complaint, and we’re looking into each of the allegations,” spokesman Alex Fryer wrote. Also, he said the office is in contact with Columbia Legal Services, the firm that filed the lawsuit on behalf of a group including a 16-year-old and two 17-year-olds who are awaiting trials for their criminal cases at RJC. No further details on them was immediately known. In August, Constantine named Deputy Executive Rhonda Berry to lead countywide efforts on reforming youth detention. “That work is continuing,” Fryer wrote. According to Columbia Legal Services, each of the teens has spent days or months in complete isolation — a practice that negatively affects their emotional, physical and mental well-being, as well as cuts them off from legal guarantees of a meaningful education. And such treatments disproportionately affect juveniles of color — they made up 86 percent of the youth population charged as adults in 2016 and the entire group the year before, the lawsuit says. “They typically spend at least 23 hours a day locked in small, stark cells absent any windows or natural light, sometimes with no more than 15 minutes out of isolation every three days,” the firm said. A typical cell has a stainless-steel toilet, sink, mattress and overhead fluorescent light, with concrete walls and floors, the lawsuit says. In terms of daily educational lessons, the lawsuit says one instructor is responsible for teaching all young people at RJC, spending anywhere between 60 minutes and just a few minutes with students. Nick Straley, an attorney with Columbia Legal Services, said staff conducted a monthslong investigation before filing the lawsuit Friday, a process that required building intimacy with detained teens and talking with their families. As of Monday, he said “six children were in isolation.” “We want to ensure that the jail begins to treat children like children,” Straley said, The lawsuit comes amid an aggressive push by youth social-justice activists in Seattle to raise awareness of community-based alternatives to incarceration, including restorative-justice programs. Groups have staged protests over months to put pressure on city and county politicians to reconsider their plans for a new youth-detention center in Seattle’s Central Area. King County voters approved a $210 million, property-tax levy for that project in 2012, agreeing to replace the county’s existing youth-detention center and dilapidated courthouse with new facilities. Construction is underway. The complaint points to the new jail as being “unnecessary” and harmful,” saying authorities should instead focus on properly educating and treating young people at RJC. Material from Seattle Times archives included in this report. 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0.999664	JODIE COMER enjoyed a mega two or three years after grabbing our attention in the brilliant Doctor Foster. But since becoming an awards magnet for her turn as demented spy Villanelle in Killing Eve, the next few months are looking more frustrating. 7 Jodie Comer's 2021 projects have been shelved due to the pandemicCredit: BBC Pictures' Digital Picture I’m told that the Scouse actress has been left twiddling her thumbs, like much of the TV and film industry, as her two big projects have both been put on ice indefinitely due to the coronavirus crisis. She was to play Miss Honey in a rebooted film of kids’ story Matilda, and reprise her star turn in BBC smash hit Killing Eve for series four. A source said: “It’s frustrating for everyone in the industry now and Jodie will be feeling that too. “She’s more killing time than Killing Eve right now, as both the cast and crew of that and Matilda have been told to stand down until there is more certainty about filming safely. 7 The actress is set to play Miss Honey in a new film of classic MatildaCredit: Getty Images “It is the last thing Jodie would want after the few years she’s had. “She wants to keep the momentum up but there are more important things in the world right now.” Jodie has taken the world of telly by storm since her early days doing bit parts in Waterloo Road and Holby City. After work eventually wraps on Killing Eve and Matilda, she will team up with fellow Merseyside actor Stephen Graham. 7 Jodie will also reprise her role in BBC smash hit Killing Eve for series fourCredit: Alamy The pair are working together on Jack Thorne’s new drama Help, about a a care worker and one of her patients — which was pencilled in for this year. Hopefully that happens, as it is sure to be a hit with those three on board. Gloria: Let straights play gays Sitcom veteran Melvyn Hayes has hit out at the idea gay roles should only be played by gay actors – as suggested this week by TV writer Russell T Davies. Melvyn, who played camp “Gloria” Beaumont in classic Seventies sitcom It Ain’t Half Hot Mum, said: “Are we going to get to a point where only green men are going to play green men, only Russians are going to play Russians, only transvestites can play transvestites? 7 Melvyn played camp 'Gloria' Beaumont in Seventies sitcom It Ain’t Half Hot Mum “It’s nothing to do with the acting any more. Where is it going to end? “What about Dustin Hoffman in Tootsie and Robin Williams in Mrs Doubtfire? What about actresses playing principal boys in pantomimes? “Does this mean I can no longer play a pantomime dame? Should Rock Hudson have kissed Doris Day in the movies, because he was gay? “Actors should be allowed to play any parts.” Pembroke killer hunt gets 6.8m We are relying on feelgood telly more than ever to brighten up our lives – so it is surprising that a serial killer thriller has been many people’s viewing of choice. The Pembrokeshire Murders was shown across three nights on ITV this week, with 6.8million watching Wednesday’s finale. 7 The Pembrokeshire Murders finale was watched by 6.8million on WednesdayCredit: WORLD PRODUCTIONS/ITV The true-crime story, following the pursuit of murderer John Cooper, played by Keith Allen, became the channel’s biggest new drama series since 2014’s Cilla, with Sheridan Smith. The three-parter, in which Luke Evans starred as detective Steve Wilkins, is available on the ITV Hub. Return of the Mac for Catchpoint Paddy McGuinness is back as quizmaster for a new series of Catchpoint, which boasts “the biggest balls on TV”. The third run of the show, where contestants answer questions before catching balls that drop from the ceiling, starts tomorrow on BBC1. 7 Paddy McGuinness returns for a new series of CatchpointCredit: BBC Paddy, who said he was raised on game shows as a kid, added: “I’m a big TV buff so I loved things like Telly Addicts. “I also loved Blankety Blank, The Generation Game and The Price Is Right.” Mok on the mend Dancing On Ice pro skater Yebin Mok has assured fans she is on the mend after show partner Graham Bell “stabbed” her leg with his skate blade in training. Praising staff at Watford hospital, she wrote on Instagram: “So grateful for the care I received. “My leg is feeling so much better already thanks to them.” Just Maya type Maya Jama’s clothes made headlines last year, now headlines are making her clothes. Her sexy outfits while co-hosting BBC1’s Save Our Summer drew complaints but she refused to tone them down. 7 Maya Jama has refused to tone down her sexy outfitsCredit: INSTAGRAM/MAYA JAMA Most read in News TV PADDY'S PAIN Paddy McGuinness fears his autistic kids will never know he loves them festive treats ITV announces HUGE Christmas TV shake-up - with Corrie & Emmerdale specials NEIN GOOD Strictly fans fear Motsi Mabuse will miss SECOND week of show amid Covid crisis WHAT THE ELF University Challenge viewers baffled after contestant gives OUTRAGEOUS answer 'NOT FUN' Alex Beresford left bed-bound with Covid as he admits 'relaxing' handwashing SUNSET STRIP I posed naked for Playboy before Selling Sunset, says Heather Rae Young And here she is in another one – a figure-hugging newsprint shirt. Maya is replacing Stacey Dooley as host of BBC Three make-up contest Glow Up and said on Instagram she was “Over the moon”, adding: “You already know how much I love serving looks.” Murs in the mask? Olly Murs did little to quell speculation that he’s the mystery celeb in the Robin costume on The Masked Singer. He hung up on Mark Wright after the Heart radio host asked him if he was inside the feathered costume. Spooked by Mark’s question, Olly said: “Mate, I’ve got to go, sorry,” and ended the call. Killing Eve's Jodie Comer wins Best Actress at TV Choice Awards for second year in a row GOT a story? 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0.976874	The stars who lost the most weight on the I'm A Celebrity diet - as Jacqueline Jossa shows off extreme weight loss Jump directly to the content Sign in Irish Sun US Edition UK Edition Scottish Sun Dream Team Search Home Football TV Showbiz Fabulous Sport News Money Health Dear Deidre Motors Travel Tech Puzzles Topics A-Z All Football All Showbiz Bizarre The Big Interview Music Showbiz I’m A Celebrity I'M A CELEB LOSERS The stars who lost the most weight on the I’m A Celebrity diet – as Jacqueline Jossa shows off extreme weight loss Dan Hall 13:40, 11 Dec 2019 Updated: 14:22, 11 Dec 2019 FOR three gruelling weeks, contestants on I'm A Celeb eat nothing but rice and beans — save for the occasional pig uterus or kangaroo anus. And the heavily restricted diet - which nutritionists warn is extremely dangerous - causes contestants to shrink over the course of the competition, with Jacqueline Jossa's transformation shocking her followers. 11 Jacqueline Jossa, this year's I'm a Celeb winner, underwent a dramatic weight loss during her time in the jungle The dietary slog is extremely tough on contestants, with rugby player James Haskell describing the horrendous toll that eating as few as 100 calories a day took on his physical health. "I was so hungry," he said, "I was unable to get off my bed and move. "I had physical ailments from where I went from 4,000 calories to 250 calories. That is starvation. "That was the biggest shock.” James claims to have cut nearly two stone in just 18 days in the jungle, adding "I did feel personally handicapped". But he's not the only contestant to watch the pounds dramatically drop off during their stint on the show. Nutritional advisers Annabel Wray and Victoria Knight warn that the rice and beans diet isn't sustainable or healthy. "The reason the contestants lose weight is because they experience a daily calorie deficit, rather than the fact they are surviving purely on rice and beans," they told Sun Online. "This combination lacks Vitamin C amongst many other essential nutrients, so for any prolonged length of time you would start to feel unwell and malnourished." As these shocking weight loss pictures reveal, the I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here diet is best left to those being paid to do it — with a team of healthcare professionals monitoring them the whole time. Rebekah Vardy - 1 stone 11 Rebekah Vardy lost 14lbs while in the jungle - and complained she looked too skinny as a result Rebekah Vardy, 37, said she "didn't think about sex once" during her time in the camp in 2017, because "the hunger takes over". And the WAG must have been ravenous because she lost a huge amount of weight during her Jungle stint. "I lost a stone", she said, adding: "This is the weight I was before I had any kids. "Jamie loves me whatever I look like, but I’m too skinny now." Georgia Toffolo - 9 lbs 11 MIC's Toff lost a huge 9lbs and admitted feeling too thin after Made in Chelsea's Toff took the crown in the 17th series of I'm a Celeb two years ago. But the 25-year-old had to slog to get it. and she looked noticeably leaner when she left camp. Georgia and her campmates lost a collective six stone during their series, which saw the group win fewer meals in bushtucker trials than previous years' cohorts. Speaking exclusively to The Sun's Bizarre at the time, she said: "I feel really skinny. "I had small boobies anyway and [now] I [look] down and I [am] completely flat!" Emily Atack - 1 stone 11 Emily Atack lifted her top to show her slimmer build after just one week on the brutal diet Inbetweeners beauty Emily Atack lost close to a stone when she took part in the series that saw Harry Redknapp crowned king of the jungle. But the Luton-born actor, 29, was constantly bodyshamed by trolls even after the cameras stopped rolling. After the end of the ITV reality show, she wrote online: "Some bloke just said to me in a restaurant whilst I was eating my dinner: 'No, stop. Starvation suits you.' "What in the...!? I would throw my burg at you but that would be a massive waste love." Katie Price 11 Katie Price looked noticeably smaller after her Jungle stint Katie Price, better known as Jordan at the time, made her first appearance on I'm a Celeb in 2004 — along with future husband Peter Andre. She left the jungle looking noticeably thinner - but the brutal diet wasn't enough to stop her doing the show again in 2009. Scarlett Moffatt 11 Scarlett Moffatt went from 11st 4lb to 8st during an amazing weight loss run around the time of the series Gogglebox star Scarlett, 29, was queen of the jungle in the 2016 series of I'm a Celeb. After her weight loss during the show, she carried on dieting, releasing a controversial fitness DVD on the strength of her transformation. She claimed to have lost over three stone on a healthy diet plan when it emerged she was actually exercising for hours every day and eating only 700 calories. Dennis Wise 11 Chelsea legend Dennis Wise looked emaciated after following the 'really hardcore' diet, which he likened to 'rations' Dennis Wise crashed out of the show just a few days before the final in 2017. But the 52-year-old ex-footballer probably takes the title for the most shocking weight loss in his series, with fans concerned by his sinewy build towards the end of the show. After he left, he told Ant and Dec: "I've shedded so much weight, people don't realise the rations you get — I mean they are rations! "And if you miss a group of stars, and if you don't get any, you go for a whole day all the way through to the next night and it's not nice and it's really hardcore." Michael Buerk - 17lbs 11 Michael Buerk looked extremely thin when he was on the tiny diet of rice and beans BBC broadcasting veteran Michael Buerk, 73, was already lean when he entered the jungle in 2014 — the same series where Gemma Collins quit after three days claiming she was "starving". But he managed to lose a staggering 17lbs during the show. Speaking at the time, Michael's wife Christine said she'd been worried about his extraordinary weight loss. "I was quite horrified to realise that they only get 500 calories a day in the jungle," she told MailOnline. "It’s not that he dislikes rice and beans, but the rations are quite low." Stanley Johnson - 1.5 stone 11 Stanley Johnson got down to a weight that he hadn't been since he was a teenager The Prime Minister's father, 79, dropped a stone-and-a-half during his time down under in 2017, making him the same weight he was in the 1950s. He dropped from 91kilos to 82kilos while making the programme. "I haven’t been that weight since 1954 and I want to keep it that way," Stanley said. "Mind you, it’s a complicated way of losing weight." Nick Knowles - 2.2 stone 11 Nick Knowles lost more than two stone in less than three weeks in an alarming body change DIY SOS' Nick Knowles finished in sixth place during his jungle run last year. But the 57-year-old topped the weight loss charts, shedding 2.2stone in just 19 days. And he highlighted all the behind-the-scenes graft that the stars of the show have to do despite being famished. "You have to go all the way down to the bottom of a very steep hill to get wood for the fire, which you have to do about ten times a day," he said. "You also have to bring the water up the hill, 30 kilos worth when it's full, then you're going off doing trials with such little food. "To give you an idea, I was in there something like 19 days and I've lost 14 kilos." Amir Khan 11 Amir Khan's muscle definition was much more visible after he lost body fat on I'm a Celeb Former World Champion boxer Amir Khan, 33, sported a much leaner look after getting out of the jungle in 2017. The Bolton-born fighter looked shredded - even though he famously hogged a strawberries and cream dessert meant for the whole camp in what became known as "strawberrygate". Amir later told Ant and Dec that Iain Lee, who he secretly split the sweet treat with, took most of the blame for the clandestine scoffing. "He was new in the camp, my campmates knew me really well and they didn’t think I would do that," Amir confessed. "I did take some blame. Poor Iain." 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0.999472	Swofford "disappointed" ACC-SEC rivalry games won't happen in 2020 \| TigerNet '); } $("p:eq(5)").append(' TRENDING: Clemson moves up in new College Football Playoff rankings TRENDING: Playing time breakdown: Tigers overcome more attrition in dominating rivalry shutout '); if ($('.trending-35916')[0]) { $('.trending-35916').remove(); } else { $('.related-inside').last().hide(); if ($('.trending-c').length > 3) { $('.trending-c:nth-child(4)').nextAll('.trending-c').remove(); } } $("#related-updates").css('height', 20 + 27 * $("#related-updates li").size() + 'px'); changeDateFormat(); $('#recent-updates').scroll(debounce(changeDateFormat, 250, true)); $("#recent-stories").css('height', 25 + 30 * $("#recent-stories li").size() + 'px'); $(".jspPane").css('padding', '0'); $.getScript('https://www.tigernet.com/static/js/tipped.js', function() { Tipped.delegate('.utip', { skin: 'purple', size: 'large', ajax: { url: '/ajx/tooltip.do' } }); }); var clipboard = new Clipboard('#copy-embed-btn'); clipboard.on('success', function(e) { Tipped.remove('#copy-embed-button'); Tipped.create('#copy-embed-button', 'Copied!', { skin: 'purple', position: 'topleft', }); Tipped.show('#copy-embed-button'); //e.clearSelection(); }); } It looks like you are using an ad-blocker. 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Tiger Boards \| Donor's Den \| Member Search \| Chat \| T-Mail \| Shop for Clemson Gear! \| ADVERTISE \| CONTACT US \| FAQ \| >> UPGRADE! << Home Football 2021 Schedule 2021 Roster 2021 Signees 2022 Commits 2022 Offers Depth Chart Tickets / Parking Scholarships Future Schedules Photos Stats 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 Recruiting News Ticker 2021 Signees 2022 Commits 2022 Offers 2022 Top Targets 2023 Top Targets Search FB Classes 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 2001 2000 1999 1998 1997 1996 1995 1994 1993 1992 1991 1990 1989 1988 1987 1986 1985 1984 1983 1982 1981 1980 Basketball 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 Baseball 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 Basketball 2021-22 Schedule 2021-22 Roster 2022 Commits Tickets Photos Stats 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 Baseball 2021 Schedule 2021 Roster 2021 Commits Tickets Photos Stats 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 Other Sports Soccer 2021-22 Schedule 2021-22 Roster W. 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But I would quickly add that I think that’s the SEC’s decision to make,” Swofford said to the ACC Network’s Packer and Durham show. “We took a different route as a conference and we were and are very comfortable with that route. We took a path that would have allowed those games to happen. So, those rivalry games that you were speaking of are huge in the Southeast and huge in those respective states and really, really big nationally from that standpoint as well. You hate to see those disrupted.” Swofford maintained that the big conferences had stayed in good communication despite reaching differing conclusions along the way. “But each conference ultimately has to do what they believe is in their best interest. The (Autonomous) Five conferences have tried to stay on the same path on this,” he said. “I’m not surprised that we didn’t end up at exactly the same place. We’re ending up in similar places but not exactly the same place. And that’s OK. The communication has been excellent. (SEC commissioner) Greg (Sankey) and I speak often, as we speak with the other conference as well. It took them a good while for them to be comfortable to make a decision just as it did us. Some of us wanted to wait a little longer than others in order to have more information when we tried to finalize a decision and the Big Ten and the PAC-12 went a little earlier. “But we’re all dealing with the same set of circumstances in a sense. My disappointment isn’t really a criticism of the SEC, but it’s just a disappointment that those are quality games that from our standpoint could have been played but now will not be played.” Swofford said that, as of Friday, he believes the ACC schools will be able to fill the non-conference spot and that they are “down the road” on overall schedule dates and hope to have them “sooner rather than later.” “Yes, it appears so at this point in time,” Swofford said on the non-conference game. “I just had a conversation earlier this morning actually in regard to that question you were asking. Yes, I think all of our schools are on track to have their one non-conference game that would be played either at home or in the home state of our respective institution.” The ACC, like many conferences nationwide, has taken its time in making a call while monitoring the latest with the COVID-19 pandemic. One of the reasons for paring down the schedule by a game and moving back the ACC Championship to Dec. 12 or Dec. 19 is for flexibility surrounding the pandemic. "Understanding that the landscape was changing with the seriousness of the virus," Swofford said. "And how long it may last and so forth -- and we're still in that situation, quite frankly. We felt like we were to a point where we were comfortable with how we wanted to address it if we are able to play. We know our path forward if we're able to play this fall. We also understand we will need to be nimble and there may be starts and backups so to speak...In certain weeks of the schedule, there could be certain teams that are unable to play for a week or two along the way. I think this schedule with how it's structured gives us flexibility to deal with those kinds of situations once we start the season. "We know we're going to have to be nimble. We know there's no perfect solution to this. But I think we're well-equipped to move ahead with the path that we're comfortable with and is right out there in front of us and adjust along the way if we need to adjust...We have two open dates for each team and we will schedule in a way that gives us flexibility at the end if we need to adjust and when we need to play the ACC Football Championship Game." “We took a different route as a conference… We were and are very comfortable will that route.” Hear from Commissioner Swofford on select rivalry games that won't be played this season.pic.twitter.com/WxTVnnekwm
0.968492	Lately, the Embassy of the Russian Federation in Bucharest has repeatedly drawn attention to a sensitive topic: the rapes committed by the Red Army soldiers among the civilian population during the offensive against Nazi Germany in 1944-1945 and in the immediate aftermath of the war. The embassy has tried to suggest that the figures "circulating on the net" in relation to this matter are "inflated". However, some of these figures are based on studies by important historians, such as the American Norman Naimark, who wrote that although it was not given a central place in the works on the war and the postwar period, rape was "an issue mentioned everywhere in the archives and documents of the time”. This creates a discrepancy between the Western estimates, according to which there were hundreds of thousands of rape victims, and the Russian ones, where figures are in the order of tens. But let’s see the arguments of each side of the dispute. Russia’s official stand: several cases, punished by the then authorities When it comes to the honor of the Red Army, the embassy of the Russian Federation in Romania takes Facebook by storm. And this has happened more than once. In late 2018, in a post on social media, the embassy denounced what it called "the existence in Romania of a campaign of denigration against the Red Army", by means of which the Soviet soldiers were presented as "a gang of robbers and rapists”. Presented in such a light, the embassy argued, the soldiers of the Red Army could no longer be seen in their main roles, namely that of "liberators of Romania". "Who benefits from the poisonous oil of lies spilled on the fire of Russophobia, infiltrated in the public consciousness of the Romanian people, many years after the end of hostilities in Europe? Is this because of the coming 75th anniversary of the liberation of Romania by the Red Army?", the Russian diplomats were wondering then. The embassy reverted to the issue on August 13, 2019, with a post on its Facebook page, titled "The myth of the two million raped German women finally debunked." The embassy admits that during the advance to Berlin, "Red Army soldiers did commit war crimes", but claims that their magnitude was exaggerated in the West, and the perpetrators of those reprehensible acts "were held accountable". The embassy wrote that the version of the two million rapes committed in Germany by Red Army soldiers was circulating "on the net", without specifying the timeframe in which they allegedly took place. The indicated source is the British historian Antony Beevor, author of several works on the Second World War. The embassy writes that Antony Beevor started from a document from a clinic in Berlin where 32 children "of Russian fathers" were born in 1945 and 1946. From there, "extrapolating, assuming and estimating" - and the embassy explains in detail the whole process attributed to the British historian - Beevor would have reached two million rapes throughout Germany. "Interesting calculations!", the post reads! "[Beevor] turned 32 newborn children into two million raped German women. But here's the bummer: even in the document he cites, the phrase 'Russian / rape' appears only in five cases out of 12, and in four cases out of 20, respectively. The myth is based on nine raped Germans!”, the message of the embassy reads. This "debunking of the myth" is attributed, at the end of the post, to one Feodor Shcepetov, about whom the embassy does not provide any other information. The embassy does not say what is the number of rapes estimated by historians that Moscow would agree with. The only reference in this regard is that "according to the report submitted by the prosecutor of the 1st Belarussian Front, from April 22 to May 5, 1945, 72 cases of rape were registered." The 1st Belarusian Front, along with the 1st Ukrainian Front, were the two Soviet forces that led the battle of Berlin, and the timeframe mentioned recorded a peak of abuses by the Red Army, including over May 2nd to 7th, the week of maximum anarchy in Berlin, between Hitler's suicide ( April 29/30) and the capitulation of May 8.However, there is a lot of information showing that the Soviet prosecutor's report is just the tip of the iceberg. What historical documents say. The 200 “Russian children” born in Germany. The British historian Tony Judt, in his monumental work Postwar. A History of Europe Since 1945, wrote that in Vienna, three weeks after the Red Army entered the city, doctors reported about 87,000 cases of rape. According to Judt, "[a] slightly larger number of women in Berlin were raped during the Soviet advance into the city, most of them between May 2 and 7," and adding to this were the "countless cases of aggression against women in the villages and cities on the route of the Soviet forces marching into or toward Germany, through Austria and western Poland.” In total, in the area of Soviet occupation in Germany, claims Judt, "between 150,000 and 200,000 'Russian children'" were born in 1945 and 1946, "not to mention the countless abortions" or rape cases that did not result in pregnancies. Judt does not say exactly how many of these ‘Russian children’ were conceived as a result of rape, although it is presumed that it’s the vast majority. Another historian wrote that "in its wild form, free from any official restrictions, the rape of German women continued throughout the summer of 1945." In his book 1945. Year Zero, the Dutchman Ian Buruma added that since the fall of 1945, Soviet military and civilian officials tried to curb the phenomenon, but that "the risk of a woman being raped by a Soviet soldier did not disappear until 1947, when the troops were confined to base”. Ian Buruma also noted that rapes had been reported in western Germany as well. "In Stuttgart, for example, 3,000 women were raped by French soldiers, many of them from Algeria. In the area occupied by the Americans, by far the largest, the number of rapes recorded by American troops throughout 1945 did not exceed 1,500.” But the only region where rape was "a disaster for the population," he wrote, was the area occupied by the Red Army.But the historian who dealt specifically with the topic was the American Norman Naimark. His book The Russians In Germany: The History of The Soviet Zone of Occupation, 1945–1949, Harvard, 1995, has remained a work of reference in the field. Naimark studied the phenomenon of rapes committed by Red Army soldiers in Germany, but also in other Eastern European countries. To this end, between 1987 and 1989, Naimark reached as far as the archives of East Berlin and Moscow, which were apparently more accessible in the time of Mikhail Gorbachev than they are today, in the time of Vladimir Putin. The conclusions drawn by the American historian are broad and nuanced. Rape as a weapon and a means of revenge. Naimark said that against the background of the atrocities committed by Nazi Germany in the USSR and the fierce anti-German propaganda subsequently unleashed by the Soviets, the phenomenon of rape committed by the Red Army manifested itself in all Eastern European countries, but especially in Germany. It was most acute in East Prussia, Silesia and Pomerania. Naimark also mentioned the "cultural" explanation for the rape of the enemy's woman, seen as a means of restoring male pride, severely affected by the Nazi aggression two years earlier. During the counter-offensive, Soviet soldiers were urged by official hate propaganda to take revenge for the Nazi aggression through a war of extermination. Diatribes such as those of the writer Ilia Ehrenburg were widespread among the military: “We are no longer talking. We don't get excited anymore. We kill. The day you don't kill a German is a lost day… If you kill a German, kill the next one - nothing is more exciting for us than a pile of German corpses”. The soldiers had their own experience with the Wehrmacht, but they had also been bombarded with images from the newly discovered Nazi extermination camps; the victims of the camps were not presented as Jews, but as Soviet citizens, in order to increase the determination of the military. So, when the propaganda tried to make the Soviet soldiers distinguish between Germans and Nazis, in order to save the image of communism in the East German area, it was already too late. Naimark said that the Soviet takeover of Berlin marked the outbreak of "extreme violence" against women. He estimated that "almost half of the city's female population" suffered from this scourge. The situation was improved, the historian said, by the capitulation of May 8 and the establishment of the Soviet military administration on June 9, but the danger of rape "was not removed until the confinement of Soviet soldiers in the winter of 1947-1948." On the other hand, Naimark noted, not all Soviet soldiers behaved the same way towards German women, just as the commanders' tolerance of acts of violence was not generalized. The American historian mentions the Russian commander in Magdeburg, "known as very harsh with soldiers who raped, sometimes executing those caught in the act. At one point the issue became public in what would become the German Democratic Republic. The communist authorities launched a debate on the adoption of the Soviet "superior" social model, which sought to capture the reasons for local resistance to its takeover. Called "About 'Russians' and About Us" - the Russians being the generic name under which the Soviets were perceived - the debate started in the winter of 1948-1949 in Neues Deutschland quickly touched on the issue of mass rape, which weighed heavily in the public perception. In the face of the accumulating testimonies, Naimark said, the Soviet authorities decided to stop the talks in January 1949, and the subject "remained taboo" throughout the existence of the GDR. Hazaika, idi siuda! Norman Naimark said the rapes started to become part of the Red Army’s routine around the time they crossed the Soviet Union's pre-war border. But Naimark makes a distinction between the situation in Romania and Bulgaria, on the one hand, and that in Hungary. Romania had been an aggressor country but then sided with Moscow and its allies. And indeed, in the transcripts of the Sănătescu government meetings, published in 2011, there are several references to “abuses by Red Army soldiers and officers”, especially robberies and violence, but not rapes. For example, at the government meeting of August 31, 1944, the General Director of the mines, Gheorghe Andonie, recalls what he saw as an official envoy to the Ploiești refineries where he was sent to empirically assess the damage caused by the German withdrawal and the Soviet advance. "Not only did the Russians take gas from the refineries, but they broke into the material stores and took what they wanted from there. (...) The Russians also devastated Ploiești ", the director said. From other reports, we learnt that the female population seemed to be aware of the danger and was trying to avoid contact with the passing Soviet soldiers. An eyewitness told me that in Focșani, the women who had to leave the house tried to be as unattractive as possible and would surround themselves by small children. It is almost certain, however, that the method was not always effective and that the soldiers did not limit themselves to calling at them, as the witness still remembers today: Hazaika, idi siuda! - which, in a relative translation, would mean "woman, come here!"Across the Danube, in Bulgaria - Naimark continued - relations were even better, there was a "cultural and linguistic closeness", and the population received the Soviet troops "with genuine enthusiasm". This would explain the relative absence of rape in Bulgaria. Moreover, the Bulgarian campaign was led by the more disciplined troops of Marshal Feodor Tolbuhin. In this regard, Naimark mentioned that among the most undisciplined soldiers were those under the command of Marshal Rodion Malinovsky, somewhere in the middle of this ranking being those of Marshal Ivan Konev.It was the very troops of Marshal Malinovksy that were involved in the siege of Budapest. The fierce German resistance, supported by Hungarian troops, but also the clearly superior standard of living of the city's inhabitants were also "a source of resentment" for the victorious Soviet army. "As a result, a terrible wave of rapes and robberies followed the Soviet takeover of Budapest in February 1945," Naimark said. "The girls were kept prisoners in Soviet barracks in Buda, where they were repeatedly raped and sometimes killed," quoted Naimark from the documents discovered during his research. Under Koba's indulgent gaze None of the mentioned historians have missed the opportunity to report the high-level reaction to the complaints that were accumulating in real time about the behavior of the Red Army soldiers. When the Yugoslav communist leaders opened the discussion, Marshal Konev accused them of denigrating the "glorious Red Army". According to Naimark, there were 121 cases of rape later documented by the Yugoslav communist authorities, including ten ending in the killing of the victim, during the short time the Red Army passed through the northeastern corner of the country. Konev, faced with the complaints of the Slovak communist leader Vladimir Clementis, blamed the "decayed elements" represented by deserters. But the best known is the episode from Conversations with Stalin, a memoir written by Milovan Djilas. According to the Yugoslav communist leader, who later became a dissident, Stalin, informed about the rapes, said that "we preach too much to soldiers", who should be given "more freedom of initiative" instead. "Can't we really understand the soldier who travels thousands of miles through fire, blood and death when he wants to have some fun with a woman?" Stalin said at a party, after which he kissed Djilas' wife. "I did this, he said, even at the risk of being accused of rape," the author said.Stalin's empathy for the transgressions of the Soviet soldier fighting for the noble cause of defeating Nazism and spreading communism - "The Red Army also has the role of promoting the revolution", he said on another occasion about the Soviet military incursion into Eastern Europe - may have roots in his personal history of relations with women. As a "soldier of the revolution" exiled several times to hostile Siberia by the tsarist authorities, Stalin considered himself distressed enough to indulge in a series of sexual affairs that didn’t take into consideration much of the moral precepts of the time. In his impressive monograph on the Soviet dictator, the American historian Stephen Kotkin reconstructed Stalin’s experience in Siberia. His wife, Ketevan "Kato" Svanidze, died in Baku in December 1907, and Stalin left his son Jacob in the care of his in-laws. His revolutionary activity was kept an eye on by the ochranka, the tsarist political police, and he had already been deported once. In 1910, Ioseb Dzhugashvili, then aged 32, was deported again to Solvicegutsk, in the Arkhangelsk region. There, apparently, he had another son, Constantine, whom he did not recognize. Arriving in Vologda, considered a kind of Siberian capital, "he kept chasing skirts among the peasants”, as Kotkin put it. He started an affair with a maid, Sofia Kriukova, but also with a revolutionary comrade, Serafima Korosenina, who would be soon released, though. Stalin then "borrowed" the girlfriend of another exiled comrade, a teenager named Pelaghia Onufrieva. In September 1911, he escaped and went to St. Petersburg, where he was immediately arrested and sent into exile again. He arrived in Turuhansk, where in 1914 he again seduced a teenager, the 13-year-old Lydia Pereprighina, who got pregnant. The child died, but after a while Stalin had another son with Lydia, Alexander, who survived, but who, just like his other two older brothers, was abandoned by his father. The auxiliary role of women in Stalin's personal life, before his political advancement in the 1920s, may have had an important influence on the Soviet leader's later perception of rape by Red Army soldiers in their march through Europe in the years '44 -'45. Back to Beevor. History used for political ends. There is therefore an irreducible inadvertence between what Russian and Western sources are inclined to accept as to the number of victims of Red Army rape. In his book Berlin. The fall – 1945, Antony Beevor wrote that " in total, it is estimated that at least two million German women were raped, some - if not most - being subjected to multiple rapes". The British historian does not say however how he came to that number; the task of revealing the calculation method, as we have seen, was assumed by the Russian embassy.But the embassy’s demystification can also be demystified. We can admit that Antony Beevor may not have acted in the most scrupulous way possible. But what he stated as certain, by quoting medical sources, was not the figure of two million, but "the reports of the two main hospitals in Berlin." According to them, he wrote, the number of rapes at that time, in the summer of 1945, was between 95,000 and 130,000. A number close to the one mentioned by Tony Judt, and which therefore seems to have become the academic standard in this grim statistic.It contradicts the official discourse of the Kremlin, which insists on the "liberating" role of the Red Army, ignoring the abuses committed by Soviet soldiers and officers and, even more, completely ignoring the task of the time, that of assisting and guaranteeing the emergence in Eastern Europe of "regimes friendly” to the USSR. The differences between the Soviet propaganda and the Kremlin's current discourse on the "glorious Red Army" are not major: the war with Nazi Germany and its allies is now, as it was then, officially referred to as the "Great War for the Defense of the Fatherland," and "denigrating" the role played by the Red Army in World War II is even today punishable by law in the Russian Federation, with up to five years in prison. Under these circumstances, a historic compromise between Moscow and the West over the rapes committed by Soviet soldiers in the last months of the war is difficult to reach.Historical issues are generally debated among historians, so it would have been expected that Beevor's arguments would be dismantled by his colleagues. In Russia, however, history is a matter of state policy and foreign policy, and this is how the embassy's intervention in the dispute is explained. Moscow has been trying for years to impose its own version of history, especially with regard to World War II, a history in which the USSR appears strictly as a victim and denies, for example, the role of aggressor it had played before being attacked by Nazi Germany – by capturing territories as a result of the Ribbentrop-Molotov pact, invading Poland, etc. The historical meta-narrative is part of the Kremlin's information campaign against the West and its former Eastern European satellites. 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0.933851	NewsNews Based on facts, either observed and verified directly by the reporter, or reported and verified from knowledgeable sources. State addresses urgency to prepare roads, water systems for rising sea Benchmark of 10 feet of rise by 2100 is called unreasonable by some cities and agencies. Share this: Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window) Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window) Click to print (Opens in new window) The state Coastal Commission on Wednesday, Nov. 17, 2021, approved guidelines for adapting roads, railways and water facilities to sea-level rise. Above, homes along Capistrano Beach get pelted with waves during high tide in Dana Point, CA, on Thursday, August 19, 2021. (Photo by Jeff Gritchen, Orange County Register/SCNG) By Martin Wisckol \| [email protected] \| Orange County Register PUBLISHED: November 17, 2021 at 4:10 p.m. \| UPDATED: November 18, 2021 at 4:58 p.m. Guidelines for how cities and local agencies should adapt roads, railways and water systems to accommodate rising seas were unanimously approved Wednesday by the state Coastal Commission. The 230-page document sets a controversial benchmark by urging communities to prepare for the Pacific Ocean to rise 10 feet by 2100, a projection so far beyond current calculations that climate scientists haven’t yet determined the probability of it occurring. The prospect of 6 feet of rise by 2100 has been given a 1-in-200 chance of happening. Focusing on crucial, long-term public projects that require significant funding and advance planning, the commission’s guidance underscores the urgency to get ready for oceans overtaking existing infrastructure. It emphasizes approaches that allow the Pacific’s landward advance, encouraging relocation of facilities farther inland and discouraging the use of coastal armoring such as seawalls. Commissioners said the document is designed to assist cities and agencies in figuring out how to take appropriate steps at a time when there no unified vision. “The quality has been so varied in the coastal adaptation plans we’ve seen and this will help with that,” said Commissioner Mark Gold, who is also executive director of the state’s Ocean Protection Council. Objections overruled The document, titled, “Critical Infrastructure at Risk: Sea Level Rise Planning Guidance for California’s Coastal Zone,” drew objections in advance of the meeting from several high-profile agencies and their representatives, including the League of California Cities, the Orange County Transportation Authority, the California Association of Sanitation Agencies, the Los Angeles County Sanitation Districts and the city of Huntington Beach. The most prominent concern was the document’s use of the scenario of 10 feet of sea-level rise by 2100, which they complained was unreasonably extreme, would force excessive costs and, in some cases, was unfeasible. The California Association of Sanitation Agencies and Los Angeles County Sanitation Districts suggested instead using a benchmark 3.7 feet of rise by 2070, the latest projection used by United Nation’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. The U.N. projection “is very conservative already and is consistent with a future in which there are no significant global efforts to limit or reduce emissions,” wrote the Los Angeles County Sanitation Districts in a letter to the commission. However, Coastal Commission staff pushed back on the complaint over the 10-foot rise standard, saying that current calculations haven’t taken all pertinent information into account. “It is because the climate models used to generate the probabilities had not yet incorporated the mechanisms of extreme ice sheet melt from recent research that rise to the (10-foot) scenario,” according to the commission staff report. Staff also noted that more extreme level of risk should be employed for road and water infrastructure because of they are typically multi-million dollar commitments built for to last for decades or more, raising the specter of huge consequences if they need replacement or repair. Staff said it would be much more cost effective to relocate or otherwise adapt that infrastructure in the near-term than to pick up the pieces after it was too late. Other city and agency complaints included the emphasis on relocation and the document’s disfavor with coastal seawalls, saying the commission approach could be particularly difficult in urbanized areas. There also appeared to be concern from local jurisdictions that the guidance would be forced upon them, despite the document stating it was to be used “as interpretive guidelines, not regulations.” Desalination dispute While the lion’s share of the 23 letters filed with the commission were from representatives of agencies and cities opposed to aspects of the guidance, most of the public and commission discussion at Wednesday’s online meeting concerned the fact that desalination plants weren’t included among facilities mentioned.. Ten of the 16 public speakers, including representatives of eight environmental groups, called on the commission to include desalination plants as among the “critical infrastructure” addressed, particularly since the guidance was designed to address water facilities. Most of those speakers were opponents of the controversial $1.4 billion desalination plant proposed for Huntington Beach by Poseidon Water, which is in the process of seeking a permit from the commission. Related links State report raises fresh alarms over sea-level rise Laguna Beach seawall still stands despite 3-year-old removal order State sea-level rise laws advance as urgency surges When offshore oil rigs shut down, taxpayers could be paying for it Why groundwater flooding is becoming a threat to coastal cities as sea levels rise “Critical facilities must typically be built to a higher standard than regular commercial desalination facilities,” said Susan Jordan of the Coastal Protection Network. Staff said any desalination plant that was integrated in a large water system or was key to local supplies, such as Poseidon’s proposal, would be given the same scrutiny whether or not it was outlined in the guidance. But commissioners expressed concern that the omission could leave a loophole for such projects. After considerable discussion about how to address the issue without delaying approval of the document, commissioners agreed to add language stating that desalination plants “would generally be considered critical facilities” if they met the criteria for such infrastructure. Newsroom Guidelines News Tips Contact Us Report an Error Get the latest news delivered daily! 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0.999999	My title is president but in reality, there are 12-plus women who lead our chapter. Collectively, we are all inspired by strengthening or community, providing growth opportunities for our members and paying it forward. What has been the most rewarding aspect of being chapter president? The most rewarding aspect of the role so far has been watching members grow in their careers. I find a lot of joy when I hear WISE was able to help individuals achieve their goals through the growth opportunities we provide or through a connection that was made through our network. What drives WISE Los Angeles? All of the women within our chapter values - they strive for excellence, they support each other and believe in the power of community. List three adjectives that best describe WISE Los Angeles. Leadership. Community. Growth. Chapter Overview Year Founded: 2005 Current Chapter President: Sarah Musgrove Founding Chapter President: Jennifer Rottenberg Most Popular Event: Women of Inspiration Awards Gala Most Interesting/Highly Attended Speaker/Topic: Building Sports Biggest Events: Los Angeles Rams with Super Bowl LIII, Los Angeles Dodgers with the World Series, STAPLES Center with NBA All-Star and World Surf League with major surfing events Approximate Number of Events Per Year: 20 Event Price Range: Most events are free for members; $25 on average for non-members Average Event Attendance: 75 Do you offer WISE Within? Yes Do you offer Speed Mentoring Roundtables? Yes Corporate Partners/Sponsors: Los Angeles Rams, Los Angeles Chargers, Los Angeles Dodgers, Los Angeles Lakers, FOX Sports, Anaheim Ducks, World Surf League, Los Angeles Football Club (LAFC), LA Galaxy Women of Inspiration Honorees: 2010: Fabiola Torres, VP Managing Director at Beats by Dre; Jessica Mendoza, Broadcaster, ESPN; Julie Solwold, Vice President of Global Sports Marketing at John Paul Mitchell Systems; Leslie Billinger, Sr. Shopper Marketing Manager, Coca-Cola Refreshments 2011: Amy Stanton, Owner, Stanton & Company; Karen Brodkin, EVP, Content Strategy & Partnerships at Endeavor; Susan Rosenbluth, Senior Vice President, AEG; Felisa Israel, Owner, 10 Fold Entertainment 2012: Paula Lentini, Executive Vice President of Retail at New York & Company; Sue Enquist, UCLA Softball and USA Softball Hall of Fame Coach; Trista Schroder, Interim Executive Director at Hollywood Commission on Eliminating Sexual Harassment and Advancing Equality 2013: Amy Taylor, President and Chief Marketing Officer at Red Bull North America; Jennifer Lau, Vice President, IMG Action Sports; Lindsay Amstutz, SVP/General Manager at FOX Sports West / Prime Ticket / FOX Sports SD 2014: Kristin Klein, President, Amgen Tour of California and Executive Vice President, AEG Sports; Ronit Larone, Vice President, Senior Coordinating Producer, NFL Network; Janet Marie Smith, Senior Vice President Planning and Development, Los Angeles Dodgers 2015: Blanca Gonzalez, Vice-President/General Manager, Nike West; Jennifer Van Dijk, Wasserman Group; Judi Cordray, Vice-President/General Manager at ESPN 2016: Claudia Teran, Executive Vice President and General Counsel, FOX Sports ; Renata Simril, President & CEO of LA84 Foundation; Shelley Smith, ESPN Reporter 2017: Christine Simmons, President & Chief Operations Officer of The Los Angeles Sparks; Janet Evans, Director of Athlete Relations for LA2028; Valorie Kondos Field, Head Coach of UCLA Women’s Gymnastics 2018: Michele Kajiwara, Senior Vice President Premium Seating, AEG; Jennifer Pransky, (Former) Coordinating Producer Features, FOX Sports; Sandy Nunez, Coordinating Producer, ESPN LA 2019: Heather Brooks Karatz, President LA Wildcats XFL; Allison Howard, Vice President of Corporate Partnership, Los Angeles Lakers; Danita Johnson, President & Chief Operating Officer, LA Sparks
0.9999	The term “intellectual property” is used relatively frequently, but what does it actually mean? As a small business owner, you’re likely aware of the fact that you own your business’s physical assets. You might have a company vehicle, a desk, or a computer. If someone took them from you without permission, it would be considered theft. The same general concept also applies to your ideas and innovations. For instance, if you came up with a new style of sneakers while on your lunch break, you could claim this design as intellectual property. In order to formally do so, though, you must properly express your intellectual property. A thought, idea, or concept cannot be protected on its own. If, however, you drew a picture of the sneakers or came up with a prototype, you would then have a piece of intellectual property you could take steps to protect. Intellectual property can take many forms, including: A brand name. A logo. Inventions. Literary or artistic work. While the concept of intellectual property is an important one, your property isn’t worth much if it isn’t well-protected. Anyone with entrepreneurial aspirations or who hopes to form a small business needs to understand a few core elements of intellectual property rights and laws to protect themselves and their budding business. The Purpose of Intellectual Property Rights The concept of protecting physical property is fairly easy to grasp. However, the importance of protecting your thoughts and ideas is a bit more nuanced. To own intellectual property rights means you have the exclusive right to own, make copies of, and license your thoughts and ideas. The ability for a musician to compose, an author to write, and an inventor to invent, all with the knowledge that they will be able to own their intellectual property, spurs on critical factors, such as economic growth and innovation. The hope of gaining intellectual rights to the next miracle drug keeps countless medical professionals busy researching in the fields of chemistry and biology. The recognition of intellectual property and the right to possess and utilize it is a major driving factor of innovation in the modern world. Types of Intellectual Property Protection While there are many ways to approach and categorize intellectual property, most legal recognition can be condensed down to four specific areas: Copyright A copyright is the expression of an idea in a fixed, documented form. This includes literary, artistic, and musical creations. In theory, the originator of a piece of material is automatically the owner of the copyright. If a musician writes down or records a song, they own the copyright. If an author writes a book, they own the copyright. However, formally registering your material with the federal government is a wise move, as it protects you from copyright infringement. Trademark A trademark is a business-focused form of intellectual property protection. Rather than securing creative rights, trademarks differentiate one brand’s products from another. Commonly trademarked items include: Business names like Apple or Google. Brand names like Snapple or Coca-Cola. Logos like the Nike swoosh or the NBC peacock. Slogans such as “Where’s the beef?” by Wendy’s. A trademark is one of the most common forms of intellectual property people deal with. You need a trademark to legally reserve and register a business name for tax purposes, as well as to protect from theft or misuse. Trademarks protect brands from any competition that too closely mirrors their trademarked material. A company that calls itself “Lows,” creates a blue logo, and starts selling home improvement products, for instance, can be stopped from doing so by the trademarked company Lowes, as the competitor mirrors the legally registered company too closely. Patent A patent protects the intellectual property rights of an invention. There are several standards that must be met in order to receive a patent. While these are very complex, in general, your invention or work must be: Novel: It cannot be something that has been recently invented. Non-obvious: It can’t be a solution that is easy to discover by anyone. Useful: It must have a significant use that helps to improve something. Patents typically fall into one of three categories: A utility patent protects how something works. A design patent protects the design, shape, or configuration of something. A plant patent protects distinctly new kinds of plants. Critically, unlike copyrights, you do not automatically own the patent to an invention simply because you created it. Instead, you must be the first person to apply for the patent. Trade Secret A trade secret refers to things like recipes, formulas, and techniques that cannot be easily protected under the previous three categories. In order to receive federal protection, a trade secret must have commercial value and cannot simply be an idea with no applicable weight. Even if a small business — for example, a sole proprietorship, or an individual providing consulting services — doesn’t have any trade secrets as such, working with clients and companies with their own respective, proprietary data or resources would fall under this category. Trade secrets can be nuanced and sensitive, so it pays to do some research or ask the relevant authorities about what might qualify as protected information when working with other businesses — or soliciting help from consultants. Intellectual Property Theft While there are clear steps to take to prevent something like a laptop or car from being stolen, intellectual property theft can be difficult to inhibit — and it can cost your business billions of dollars. The act of stealing intellectual property, also known as “piracy,” involves illegally robbing a person or business of their inventions, ideas, or other creative expressions. The internet has made intellectual property theft extremely easy. Whether it’s a downloaded picture, a bootlegged movie, or ripped music, there are many ways that intellectual property is illegally accessed online. In addition, taking a piece of intellectual property and promoting it as your own is another form of intellectual property theft that is commonly found online, especially in countries with lax laws regarding the practice.
0.993634	The Entwistle Company, still in business today, was founded in 1918 by James L. Entwistle, who was an electrical engineer and professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Professor Entwistle founded the Company in Rhode Island for the purpose of manufacturing specialized machinery for producing insulated electrical wire, which was an important emerging technology at the time. Over the ensuing years, Entwistle acquired other capital machinery product lines and pursued defense-related work and acquisitions, which has resulted in a diverse product mix. The Company's operations were moved to Hudson, Massachusetts in 1970. 1 Mr Entwistle was born April 18th, 1899 in Central Falls Rhode Island. 2 His parents were Albert E Entwistle and Rhoda A Entwistle. 3 Entwistle graduated from MIT in 1921 4 and became an Assistant Professor in 1929. 5 Entwistle married Miss Irene Bowen Jollie on July 12th, 1921 6 They had a son James L Entwistle Jr. 7
0.996599	After completion of their education and fellowship, the student must then pass a certification exam (which has to be retaken every ten years) to officially become a board certified rheumatologist. They can order X-rays, blood tests, or any other diagnostic tests needed to support his initial assessment. A pediatric rheumatologist will treat children with any kind of musculoskeletal issue. Over time, the outer cartilage of the joint is worn away. A rheumatologist usually performs a complete physical exam when they see a person for the first time, or when they want to monitor the effects of a current treatment program. The rheumatologist also recommends and prescribes the medical treatments needed to slow or possibly even stop the disease from progressing, helps the patient manage symptoms (such as joint pain, stiffness, fatigue, and fever), and monitors the patient on an ongoing basis. what does a doctor of rheumatology treathow to what does a doctor of rheumatology treat for The benefits of cryotherapy for those living with rheumatoid arthritis, include improved range of motion, reduction in pain and inflammatory markers and reduced medicinal intake. A rheumatologist is an internal medicine physician who specializes in the diagnosis and treatment of disorders affecting the joints and soft tissues, as well as autoimmune diseases and vasculitis. A rheumatology specialist will get involved in your treatment if you have joint or muscles pain that does not resolve in a conventional manner. After your rheumatology diagnosis and the creation of your initial treatment plan, you will need to see your rheumatologist regularly as part of your overall treatment strategy. Rheumatologists provide ongoing support to patients and make recommendations as to which drug types to try (or switch to if the current course of treatment is not working), therapies to pursue, and other specialists to see for even more support in managing daily symptoms and staying healthy. For this reason, managing multiple sclerosis typically takes a team of doctors â¦ While you can go to a rheumatologist for osteoarthritis of the spine, this branch of medicine is particularly noted for its diagnosis and treatment of systemic, autoimmune and â¦ A cytokine storm is a faulty immune response that causes the body to attack its own tissues and cells instead of the virus. What Do Rheumatologists Treat? However, because of their advanced knowledge in this area, rheumatologists are often able to detect early signs of RA and other forms of arthritis that other doctors may not be able to initially identify. A rheumatologist is a board-certified MD who specializes in diseases of the jointsâin other words, arthritis. When choosing doctors, you need to understand their specialty field and what they treat. Due to the wide-ranging nature of rheumatoid conditions, rheumatology is a multidisciplinary field that works closely with other medical specialists. For patients with RA, rheumatologists assist with the treatment of its many symptoms, including joint pain, swelling and inflammation, stiffness, and deformities. Therefore, itâs important to understand your condition as best as possible so you can take charge of your personal health. Last medically reviewed on October 22, 2019, Sacroiliitis is a condition where one or both of the sacroiliac joints become inflamed. A rheumatologist is an internal medicine doctor who specializes in diagnosing and treating inflammatory conditions … "Rheumatologists treat joint diseases similar to orthopedists, but do not perform surgeries," Singh explains. A primary care doctor or rheumatologist can use different imaging tests to look for signs of joint damage. Their strong foundation in internal medicine prepares them as specialists to manage localized and systemic (generalized) pain. However, people who notice pain or stiffness that does not improve within a few weeks may want to consider visiting their primary care doctor. The RASN is a non-profit team of healthcare professionals, and RA warriors who are committed to helping people with rheumatoid arthritis live full, happy lives despite their diagnosis. Symptoms include: According to Medscape, salary for practicing rheumatologists averages around $234,000 annually. Becoming educated about your medical issues and taking the steps to address your needs will help you to begin the steps to gain control the situation. This concentrates on comprehending how feelings and actions influence discomfort and manifestations. Rheumatologists may also choose to participate in ongoing studies and conduct clinical trials in rheumatology in order to contribute to the advancement of scientific discovery. We often act as detectives to help put together the pieces of a complex puzzle of symptoms and lab tests. Of these, anti-inflammatory drugs are one of the most widely used non-surgical treatment options for relieving the pain associated with rheumatic diseases like RA. How can I be referred to a consultant rheumatologist? They also help to refine diagnostic criteria as we continue to learn more about and better understand the various musculoskeletal and autoimmune conditions like RA. Plymouth Minnesota Rheumatologist Doctors physician directory - Arthritis (Joint Inflammation) symptoms and signs include pain, joint inflammation, and swelling. After test results come back and enough time has passed to evaluate how you are doing on the prescribed medications, your doc… A rheumatologist can help to find the underlying cause of pain and swelling you may be experiencing. In preparing for your first visit to the rheumatologist, there are some items which are helpful to collect and bring with you. They can also use these test results to look for specific genetic markers that may increase a person’s risk of specific autoimmune or inflammatory conditions. To help the Rheumatology Team decide on the best Due to the complex and chronic nature of RA, rheumatologists must also look for any potential signs of complications that may arise because of the autoimmune condition. When it comes to a rheumatologist, he specializes in the diagnosis along with the treatment of the rheumatic diseases. There are many qualified doctors who acknowledge the disorder and will offer you the proper care, â¦ There are over 100 types of arthritis, which constitute the most common chronic ailment in the U.S. He uses special diagnostic procedures to evaluate joint health and to seek appropriate treatment for joint conditions like arthritis, rheumatism, osteoarthritis, bursitis, etc. The only stupid question is the one you don’t ask. Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs — such as ibuprofen, naproxen, meloxicam, and aspirin — can also help relieve joint inflammation and reduce pain in the joints. Many of these … Some of the services provided by the doctor are: Gout Treatment,Bursitis and Tendonitis,Juvenile Rheumatoid Arthritis and Lupus etc. All rights reserved. So ask your rheumatologist whatever it is you want to know. A rheumatologist is a doctor who treats conditions related to the bones, joints, and muscles. They treat patients with pain and disorders of the joints, muscles, tendons, bones and other connective tissues.Their strong foundation in internal medicine prepares them as specialists to manage localized and generalized pain while also considering other medications or conditions. Because they studied in rheumatology specifically, rheumatologists are the physicians best able to diagnose a variety of rheumatic conditions (such as RA and osteoarthritis) by examining symptoms, performing medical tests, and asking specific questions of their patients. what does a rheumatology doctor treathow to what does a rheumatology doctor treat for Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) damages the lining and cartilage of the joints. As part of working with a rheumatologist, you will be provided with a personalized treatment plan that addresses your unique case of RA. A rheumatologist treats disorders of the muscles, bones, joints and internal organs due to rheumatic diseases and arthritis, according to the American College of Rheumatology. Symptoms. In this article, we discuss what rheumatologists do, the types of conditions they treat, the procedures they perform, and why someone would need to see one. Now that we’ve covered what a rheumatology specialist is and reasons why you need to see the rheumatologist, let’s talk about deciding which rheumatologist to see. To become a pediatric rheumatologist, it is necessary to attend medical school and then complete a residency in pediatrics, which usually lasts three years. You’ll see them regularly. A rheumatologist can treat joint inflammation and pain by either injecting an anti-inflammatory medication, such as corticosteroid, directly into the affected joint or by aspirating the joint. In other words, physicians who are general practitioners generally refer their patients to rheumatologists when they suspect symptoms consistent with rheumatic diseases (such as chronic pain in the joints and fatigue) and want or need to confirm this diagnosis which is outside their normal realm or scope of expertise. References. Nor do we recommend anything we wouldn't use ourselves. There are over 100 types of arthritis, which constitute the most common chronic ailment in the U.S. Some rheumatology departments also offer an open system, where patients can request to see the rheumatology nurse specialist independently (usually if thereâs a problem between appointments). In recent years, researchers have also discovered several genetic markers associated with ankylosing spondylitis. They are also there to help improve the quality of life of their patients. Rheumatologists treat many rare diseases that are difficult to diagnose. A routine appointment with a rheumatologist varies depending on the condition or complaint they are helping treat. A rheumatologist is a specialist physician who has expertise in diagnosing and treating arthritis and other musculoskeletal conditions and autoimmune diseases. Rheumatologists treat conditions such as: They are also there to help improve the quality of life of their patients. In the simplest words, Rheumatology is the study that deals with the joints, soft tissues, autoimmune diseases and heritable connective tissue disorders. A rheumatologist is physician who is qualified by additional training and experience in the diagnosis and treatment of arthritis and other diseases of the joints, muscles and bones. Most recommended products are used daily by our team and paid for with our personal money. A rheumatologist treats disorders of the muscles, bones, joints and internal organs due to rheumatic diseases and arthritis, according to the American College of Rheumatology. 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0.996813	ERROR: type should be string, got "https://preview.redd.it/fl5e0q7i3cc41.jpg?width=1024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=445485d722839a9adc1ae13db4c965b0ae3e67b7\nFounded by HDR Global Trading Limited (which in turn was founded by former bankers Arthur Hayes, Samuel Reed and Ben Delo) in 2014, BitMEX is a trading platform operating around the world and registered in the Seychelles.\nMeaning Bitcoin Mercantile Exchange, BitMEX is one of the largest Bitcoin trading platforms currently operating, with a daily trading volume of over 35,000 BTC and over 540,000 accesses monthly and a trading history of over $34 billion worth of Bitcoin since its inception.\n\nhttps://preview.redd.it/coenpm4k3cc41.jpg?width=808&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8832dcafa5bd615b511bbeb6118ef43d73ed785e\nUnlike many other trading exchanges, BitMEX only accepts deposits through Bitcoin, which can then be used to purchase a variety of other cryptocurrencies. BitMEX specialises in sophisticated financial operations such as margin trading, which is trading with leverage. Like many of the exchanges that operate through cryptocurrencies, BitMEX is currently unregulated in any jurisdiction.\nVisit BitMEX\nHow to Sign Up to BitMEX\nIn order to create an account on BitMEX, users first have to register with the website. Registration only requires an email address, the email address must be a genuine address as users will receive an email to confirm registration in order to verify the account. Once users are registered, there are no trading limits. Traders must be at least 18 years of age to sign up.\nhttps://preview.redd.it/0v13qoil3cc41.jpg?width=808&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e6134bc089c4e352dce10d754dc84ff11a4c7994\nHowever, it should be noted that BitMEX does not accept any US-based traders and will use IP checks to verify that users are not in the US. While some US users have bypassed this with the use of a VPN, it is not recommended that US individuals sign up to the BitMEX service, especially given the fact that alternative exchanges are available to service US customers that function within the US legal framework.\nHow to Use BitMEX\nBitMEX allows users to trade cryptocurrencies against a number of fiat currencies, namely the US Dollar, the Japanese Yen and the Chinese Yuan. BitMEX allows users to trade a number of different cryptocurrencies, namely Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash, Dash, Ethereum, Ethereum Classic, Litecoin, Monero, Ripple, Tezos and Zcash.\nThe trading platform on BitMEX is very intuitive and easy to use for those familiar with similar markets. However, it is not for the beginner. The interface does look a little dated when compared to newer exchanges like Binance and Kucoin’s.\nOnce users have signed up to the platform, they should click on Trade, and all the trading instruments will be displayed beneath.\nClicking on the particular instrument opens the orderbook, recent trades, and the order slip on the left. The order book shows three columns – the bid value for the underlying asset, the quantity of the order, and the total USD value of all orders, both short and long.\nThe widgets on the trading platform can be changed according to the user’s viewing preferences, allowing users to have full control on what is displayed. It also has a built in feature that provides for TradingView charting. This offers a wide range of charting tool and is considered to be an improvement on many of the offering available from many of its competitors.\nhttps://preview.redd.it/fabg1nxo3cc41.jpg?width=808&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6d939889c3eac15ab1e78ec37a8ccd13fc5e0573\nOnce trades are made, all orders can be easily viewed in the trading platform interface. There are tabs where users can select their Active Orders, see the Stops that are in place, check the Orders Filled (total or partially) and the trade history. On the Active Orders and Stops tabs, traders can cancel any order, by clicking the “Cancel” button. Users also see all currently open positions, with an analysis if it is in the black or red.\nBitMEX uses a method called auto-deleveraging which BitMEX uses to ensure that liquidated positions are able to be closed even in a volatile market. Auto-deleveraging means that if a position bankrupts without available liquidity, the positive side of the position deleverages, in order of profitability and leverage, the highest leveraged position first in queue. Traders are always shown where they sit in the auto-deleveraging queue, if such is needed.\nAlthough the BitMEX platform is optimized for mobile, it only has an Android app (which is not official). There is no iOS app available at present. However, it is recommended that users use it on the desktop if possible.\nBitMEX offers a variety of order types for users:\nLimit Order (the order is fulfilled if the given price is achieved);\nMarket Order (the order is executed at current market price);\nStop Limit Order (like a stop order, but allows users to set the price of the Order once the Stop Price is triggered);\nStop Market Order (this is a stop order that does not enter the order book, remain unseen until the market reaches the trigger);\nTrailing Stop Order (it is similar to a Stop Market order, but here users set a trailing value that is used to place the market order);\nTake Profit Limit Order (this can be used, similarly to a Stop Order, to set a target price on a position. In this case, it is in respect of making gains, rather than cutting losses);\nTake Profit Market Order (same as the previous type, but in this case, the order triggered will be a market order, and not a limit one)\nThe exchange offers margin trading in all of the cryptocurrencies displayed on the website. It also offers to trade with futures and derivatives – swaps.\nFutures and Swaps\nA futures contract is an agreement to buy or sell a given asset in the future at a predetermined price. On BitMEX, users can leverage up to 100x on certain contracts.\nPerpetual swaps are similar to futures, except that there is no expiry date for them and no settlement. Additionally, they trade close to the underlying reference Index Price, unlike futures, which may diverge substantially from the Index Price.\nBitMEX also offers Binary series contracts, which are prediction-based contracts which can only settle at either 0 or 100. In essence, the Binary series contracts are a more complicated way of making a bet on a given event.\nThe only Binary series betting instrument currently available is related to the next 1mb block on the Bitcoin blockchain. Binary series contracts are traded with no leverage, a 0% maker fee, a 0.25% taker fee and 0.25% settlement fee.\nBitmex Leverage\nBitMEX allows its traders to leverage their position on the platform. Leverage is the ability to place orders that are bigger than the users’ existing balance. This could lead to a higher profit in comparison when placing an order with only the wallet balance. Trading in such conditions is called “Margin Trading.”\nThere are two types of Margin Trading: Isolated and Cross-Margin. The former allows the user to select the amount of money in their wallet that should be used to hold their position after an order is placed. However, the latter provides that all of the money in the users’ wallet can be used to hold their position, and therefore should be treated with extreme caution.\nhttps://preview.redd.it/eg4qk9qr3cc41.jpg?width=808&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c3ca8cdf654330ce53e8138d774e72155acf0e7e\nThe BitMEX platform allows users to set their leverage level by using the leverage slider. A maximum leverage of 1:100 is available (on Bitcoin and Bitcoin Cash). This is quite a high level of leverage for cryptocurrencies, with the average offered by other exchanges rarely exceeding 1:20.\nBitMEX Fees\nFor traditional futures trading, BitMEX has a straightforward fee schedule. As noted, in terms of leverage offered, BitMEX offers up to 100% leverage, with the amount off leverage varying from product to product.\nHowever, it should be noted that trading at the highest leverages is sophisticated and is intended for professional investors that are familiar with speculative trading. The fees and leverage are as follows:\nhttps://preview.redd.it/wvhiepht3cc41.jpg?width=730&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0617eb894c13d3870211a01d51af98561907cb99\n\nhttps://preview.redd.it/qhi8izcu3cc41.jpg?width=730&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=09da4efe1de4214b0b5b9c7501aba5320e846b4c\nHowever, there are additional fees for hidden / iceberg orders. A hidden order pays the taker fee until the entire hidden quantity is completely executed. Then, the order will become normal, and the user will receive the maker rebate for the non-hidden amount.\nDeposits and Withdrawals\nBitMEX does not charge fees on deposits or withdrawals. However, when withdrawing Bitcoin, the minimum Network fee is based on blockchain load. The only costs therefore are those of the banks or the cryptocurrency networks.\nAs noted previously, BitMEX only accepts deposits in Bitcoin and therefore Bitcoin serves as collateral on trading contracts, regardless of whether or not the trade involves Bitcoin.\nThe minimum deposit is 0.001 BTC. There are no limits on withdrawals, but withdrawals can also be in Bitcoin only. To make a withdrawal, all that users need to do is insert the amount to withdraw and the wallet address to complete the transfer.\nhttps://preview.redd.it/xj1kbuew3cc41.jpg?width=808&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=68056f2247001c63e89c880cfbb75b2f3616e8fe\nDeposits can be made 24/7 but withdrawals are processed by hand at a recurring time once per day. The hand processed withdrawals are intended to increase the security levels of users’ funds by providing extra time (and email notice) to cancel any fraudulent withdrawal requests, as well as bypassing the use of automated systems & hot wallets which may be more prone to compromise.\nSupported Currencies\nBitMEX operates as a crypto to crypto exchange and makes use of a Bitcoin-in/Bitcoin-out structure. Therefore, platform users are currently unable to use fiat currencies for any payments or transfers, however, a plus side of this is that there are no limits for trading and the exchange incorporates trading pairs linked to the US Dollar (XBT), Japanese Yen (XBJ), and Chinese Yuan (XBC).\nBitMEX supports the following cryptocurrencies:\nBitcoin (XBT)\nBitcoin Cash (BCH)\nEthereum (ETH)\nEthereum Classic (ETC)\nLitecoin (LTC)\nRipple Token (XRP)\nMonero (XMR)\nDash (DASH)\nZcash (ZEC)\nCardano (ADA)\nTron (TRX)\nEOS Token (EOS)\nBitMEX also offers leverage options on the following coins:\n5x: Zcash (ZEC)\n20x : Ripple (XRP),Bitcoin Cash (BCH), Cardano (ADA), EOS Token (EOS), Tron (TRX)\n25x: Monero (XMR)\n33x: Litecoin (LTC)\n50x: Ethereum (ETH)\n100x: Bitcoin (XBT), Bitcoin / Yen (XBJ), Bitcoin / Yuan (XBC)\nTrading Technologies International Partnership\nHDR Global Trading, the company which owns BitMEX, has recently announced a partnership with Trading Technologies International, Inc. (TT), a leading international high-performance trading software provider.\nThe TT platform is designed specifically for professional traders, brokers, and market-access providers, and incorporates a wide variety of trading tools and analytical indicators that allow even the most advanced traders to customize the software to suit their unique trading styles. The TT platform also provides traders with global market access and trade execution through its privately managed infrastructure and the partnership will see BitMEX users gaining access to the trading tools on all BitMEX products, including the popular XBT/USD Perpetual Swap pairing.\nhttps://preview.redd.it/qcqunaby3cc41.png?width=672&format=png&auto=webp&s=b77b45ac2b44a9af30a4985e3d9dbafc9bbdb77c\nThe BitMEX Insurance Fund\nThe ability to trade on leverage is one of the exchange’s main selling points and offering leverage and providing the opportunity for traders to trade against each other may result in a situation where the winners do not receive all of their expected profits. As a result of the amounts of leverage involved, it’s possible that the losers may not have enough margin in their positions to pay the winners.\nTraditional exchanges like the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) offset this problem by utilizing multiple layers of protection and cryptocurrency trading platforms offering leverage cannot currently match the levels of protection provided to winning traders.\nIn addition, cryptocurrency exchanges offering leveraged trades propose a capped downside and unlimited upside on a highly volatile asset with the caveat being that on occasion, there may not be enough funds in the system to pay out the winners.\nTo help solve this problem, BitMEX has developed an insurance fund system, and when a trader has an open leveraged position, their position is forcefully closed or liquidated when their maintenance margin is too low.\nHere, a trader’s profit and loss does not reflect the actual price their position was closed on the market, and with BitMEX when a trader is liquidated, their equity associated with the position drops down to zero.\nIn the following example, the trader has taken a 100x long position. In the event that the mark price of Bitcoin falls to $3,980 (by 0.5%), then the position gets liquidated with the 100 Bitcoin position needing to be sold on the market.\nThis means that it does not matter what price this trade executes at, namely if it’s $3,995 or $3,000, as from the view of the liquidated trader, regardless of the price, they lose all the equity they had in their position, and lose the entire one Bitcoin.\nhttps://preview.redd.it/wel3rka04cc41.png?width=669&format=png&auto=webp&s=3f93dac2d3b40aa842d281384113d2e26f25947e\nAssuming there is a fully liquid market, the bid/ask spread should be tighter than the maintenance margin. Here, liquidations manifest as contributions to the insurance fund (e.g. if the maintenance margin is 50bps, but the market is 1bp wide), and the insurance fund should rise by close to the same amount as the maintenance margin when a position is liquidated. In this scenario, as long as healthy liquid markets persist, the insurance fund should continue its steady growth.\nThe following graphs further illustrate the example, and in the first chart, market conditions are healthy with a narrow bid/ask spread (just $2) at the time of liquidation. Here, the closing trade occurs at a higher price than the bankruptcy price (the price where the margin balance is zero) and the insurance fund benefits.\nIllustrative example of an insurance contribution – Long 100x with 1 BTC collateral\nhttps://preview.redd.it/is89ep924cc41.png?width=699&format=png&auto=webp&s=f0419c68fe88703e594c121b5b742c963c7e2229\n(Note: The above illustration is based on opening a 100x long position at $4,000 per BTC and 1 Bitcoin of collateral. The illustration is an oversimplification and ignores factors such as fees and other adjustments.\nThe bid and offer prices represent the state of the order book at the time of liquidation. The closing trade price is $3,978, representing $1 of slippage compared to the $3,979 bid price at the time of liquidation.)\nThe second chart shows a wide bid/ask spread at the time of liquidation, here, the closing trade takes place at a lower price than the bankruptcy price, and the insurance fund is used to make sure that winning traders receive their expected profits.\nThis works to stabilize the potential for returns as there is no guarantee that healthy market conditions can continue, especially during periods of heightened price volatility. During these periods, it’s actually possible that the insurance fund can be used up than it is built up.\nIllustrative example of an insurance depletion – Long 100x with 1 BTC collateral\nhttps://preview.redd.it/vb4mj3n54cc41.png?width=707&format=png&auto=webp&s=0c63b7c99ae1c114d8e3b947fb490e9144dfe61b\n(Notes: The above illustration is based on opening a 100x long position at $4,000 per BTC and 1 Bitcoin of collateral. The illustration is an oversimplification and ignores factors such as fees and other adjustments.\nThe bid and offer prices represent the state of the order book at the time of liquidation. The closing trade price is $3,800, representing $20 of slippage compared to the $3,820 bid price at the time of liquidation.)\nThe exchange declared in February 2019, that the BitMEX insurance fund retained close to 21,000 Bitcoin (around $70 million based on Bitcoin spot prices at the time).\nThis figure represents just 0.007% of BitMEX’s notional annual trading volume, which has been quoted as being approximately $1 trillion. This is higher than the insurance funds as a proportion of trading volume of the CME, and therefore, winning traders on BitMEX are exposed to much larger risks than CME traders as:\nBitMEX does not have clearing members with large balance sheets and traders are directly exposed to each other.\nBitMEX does not demand payments from traders with negative account balances.\nThe underlying instruments on BitMEX are more volatile than the more traditional instruments available on CME.\nTherefore, with the insurance fund remaining capitalized, the system effectively with participants who get liquidated paying for liquidations, or a losers pay for losers mechanism.\nThis system may appear controversial as first, though some may argue that there is a degree of uniformity to it. It’s also worth noting that the exchange also makes use of Auto Deleveraging which means that on occasion, leveraged positions in profit can still be reduced during certain time periods if a liquidated order cannot be executed in the market.\nMore adventurous traders should note that while the insurance fund holds 21,000 Bitcoin, worth approximately 0.1% of the total Bitcoin supply, BitMEX still doesn’t offer the same level of guarantees to winning traders that are provided by more traditional leveraged trading platforms.\nGiven the inherent volatility of the cryptocurrency market, there remains some possibility that the fund gets drained down to zero despite its current size. This may result in more successful traders lacking confidence in the platform and choosing to limit their exposure in the event of BitMEX being unable to compensate winning traders.\nHow suitable is BitMEX for Beginners?\nBitMEX generates high Bitcoin trading levels, and also attracts good levels of volume across other crypto-to-crypto transfers. This helps to maintain a buzz around the exchange, and BitMEX also employs relatively low trading fees, and is available round the world (except to US inhabitants).\nThis helps to attract the attention of people new to the process of trading on leverage and when getting started on the platform there are 5 main navigation Tabs to get used to:\nTrade:The trading dashboard of BitMEX. This tab allows you to select your preferred trading instrument, and choose leverage, as well as place and cancel orders. You can also see your position information and view key information in the contract details.\nAccount:Here, all your account information is displayed including available Bitcoin margin balances, deposits and withdrawals, and trade history.\nContracts:This tab covers further instrument information including funding history, contract sizes; leverage offered expiry, underlying reference Price Index data, and other key features.\nReferences:This resource centre allows you to learn about futures, perpetual contracts, position marking, and liquidation.\nAPI:From here you can set up an API connection with BitMEX, and utilize the REST API and WebSocket API.\nBitMEX also employs 24/7 customer support and the team can also be contacted on their Twitter and Reddit accounts.\nIn addition, BitMEX provides a variety of educational resources including an FAQ section, Futures guides, Perpetual Contracts guides, and further resources in the “References” account tab.\nFor users looking for more in depth analysis, the BitMEX blog produces high level descriptions of a number of subjects and has garnered a good reputation among the cryptocurrency community.\nMost importantly, the exchange also maintains a testnet platform, built on top of testnet Bitcoin, which allows anyone to try out programs and strategies before moving on to the live exchange.\nThis is crucial as despite the wealth of resources available, BitMEX is not really suitable for beginners, and margin trading, futures contracts and swaps are best left to experienced, professional or institutional traders.\nMargin trading and choosing to engage in leveraged activity are risky processes and even more advanced traders can describe the process as a high risk and high reward “game”. New entrants to the sector should spend a considerable amount of time learning about margin trading and testing out strategies before considering whether to open a live account.\nIs BitMEX Safe?\nBitMEX is widely considered to have strong levels of security. The platform uses multi-signature deposits and withdrawal schemes which can only be used by BitMEX partners. BitMEX also utilises Amazon Web Services to protect the servers with text messages and two-factor authentication, as well as hardware tokens.\nBitMEX also has a system for risk checks, which requires that the sum of all account holdings on the website must be zero. If it’s not, all trading is immediately halted. As noted previously, withdrawals are all individually hand-checked by employees, and private keys are never stored in the cloud. Deposit addresses are externally verified to make sure that they contain matching keys. If they do not, there is an immediate system shutdown.\nhttps://preview.redd.it/t04qs3484cc41.jpg?width=808&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a3b106cbc9116713dcdd5e908c00b555fd704ee6\nIn addition, the BitMEX trading platform is written in kdb+, a database and toolset popular amongst major banks in high frequency trading applications. The BitMEX engine appears to be faster and more reliable than some of its competitors, such as Poloniex and Bittrex.\nThey have email notifications, and PGP encryption is used for all communication.\nThe exchange hasn’t been hacked in the past.\nHow Secure is the platform?\nAs previously mentioned, BitMEX is considered to be a safe exchange and incorporates a number of security protocols that are becoming standard among the sector’s leading exchanges. In addition to making use of Amazon Web Services’ cloud security, all the exchange’s systems can only be accessed after passing through multiple forms of authentication, and individual systems are only able to communicate with each other across approved and monitored channels.\nCommunication is also further secured as the exchange provides optional PGP encryption for all automated emails, and users can insert their PGP public key into the form inside their accounts.\nOnce set up, BitMEX will encrypt and sign all the automated emails sent by you or to your account by the [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected]) email address. Users can also initiate secure conversations with the support team by using the email address and public key on the Technical Contact, and the team have made their automated system’s PGP key available for verification in their Security Section.\nThe platform’s trading engine is written in kdb+, a database and toolset used by leading financial institutions in high-frequency trading applications, and the speed and reliability of the engine is also used to perform a full risk check after every order placement, trade, settlement, deposit, and withdrawal.\nAll accounts in the system must consistently sum to zero, and if this does not happen then trading on the platform is immediately halted for all users.\nWith regards to wallet security, BitMEX makes use of a multisignature deposit and withdrawal scheme, and all exchange addresses are multisignature by default with all storage being kept offline. Private keys are not stored on any cloud servers and deep cold storage is used for the majority of funds.\nFurthermore, all deposit addresses sent by the BitMEX system are verified by an external service that works to ensure that they contain the keys controlled by the founders, and in the event that the public keys differ, the system is immediately shut down and trading halted. The exchange’s security practices also see that every withdrawal is audited by hand by a minimum of two employees before being sent out.\nBitMEX Customer Support\nThe trading platform has a 24/7 support on multiple channels, including email, ticket systems and social media. The typical response time from the customer support team is about one hour, and feedback on the customer support generally suggest that the customer service responses are helpful and are not restricted to automated responses.\nhttps://preview.redd.it/8k81zl0a4cc41.jpg?width=808&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e30e5b7ca93d2931f49e2dc84025f2fda386eab1\nThe BitMEX also offers a knowledge base and FAQs which, although they are not necessarily always helpful, may assist and direct users towards the necessary channels to obtain assistance.\nBitMEX also offers trading guides which can be accessed here\n\nConclusion\nThere would appear to be few complaints online about BitMEX, with most issues relating to technical matters or about the complexities of using the website. Older complaints also appeared to include issues relating to low liquidity, but this no longer appears to be an issue.\nBitMEX is clearly not a platform that is not intended for the amateur investor. The interface is complex and therefore it can be very difficult for users to get used to the platform and to even navigate the website.\nHowever, the platform does provide a wide range of tools and once users have experience of the platform they will appreciate the wide range of information that the platform provides.\nVisit BitMEX\nsubmitted by bitmex_register to u/bitmex_register [link] [comments]\nMy contribution to focused feedback Exploration, need help with more ideas.\nSo in preparation for focused feedback Exploration I've written down some stuff I wanna see being added to the game. And I'd like some more ideas since I'm currently stuck!\nHeres what I've got so far:\nNew ship\nThis is my personal wish\nLarge utilitarian looking exploration ship made for one thing, EXPLORATION. And No, I don't want to use the Anaconda. It would have a \"shuttle bay\" kinda like the SLF bay but the shuttles instead of having weapons the shuttle could carry an SRV. This so you could safely shuttle down to a planet with an SRV (on a high G planet forexample) leaving your 'mothership' in orbit safe from any faceplants followed by an explosion with the planets surface.\nQuality of life\nBeing able to mark a spot on a planet by coordinates so you can home in on it instead of flying around the planet like a buffoon trying to match the coordiantes.\nPlot Custom route; Being able to define a route you wanna travel along with the sytems you wanna visit instead of bookmarking every system you wanna jump to.\nBookmark folder; Have the option to create folders for your bookmarks so you can sort various bookmarks categorically. Like \"Systems discovered by me\", \"Material farm bookmarks\", \"Cool stuff folder\", \"I like turtles folder\" and so on.\nStellar Phenomena and Objects\nNeutron stars: Some sort of visual difference or different interaction with a players ship when getting to close. Putting a distinct difference between Pulsars, Non-pulsating Neutron Stars and Magnetars\nNeutron star/White Dwarf feeding on its binary companion. nom nom.\nBlack hole: Accretion disk formed either by the black hole feeding on gas (inside a Nebula?) or on a companion star.\nMicroquasar: Black hole feeding on its companion star making a smaller version of a quasar, accretion disk and jets. (400-500% FSD jump boost?, shouldn’t make to much of a difference since they are very rare.) And yes there are some in our galaxy.\nAuroa: Who wouldn’t like stumbling upon a really nice looking planetary system while exploring where some of the planets have a beautiful light show, imagine the aurora on a pulsar planet!\nCoronal mass ejection (CME): Seeing bits of a star being blasted into space, its cool. (scoopable?). Bigger CMEs which are ACTUALLY fly throught space, they can be stupendously huge in real life, imagine 2 trillion tons of superheated plasma approaching you at ludicrous speed.\nComet: with a tail once it gets close to a star. Landing on a comet would be cool aswell like Philae.\nMeteors and Meteorites: Having a rock burn up in the atmosphere of a planet would (Wishfull thinking about atmo landing) or impacting the surface a planet would be cool, plus there are already Metallic Meteorites on planets and moons.\nProtoplanetary disk (and ionized protoplanetary disk) the precursor to a planetary system around young newly formed stars which in the future will turn into planets. (Instead of just rocky or ice rings around a star, gas and glowing gas rings would be nice.)\nRogue Planets: with some way to reach it. Being on an almost pitch black planet would be cool.\nAsteroids and Asteroid Belts\nUpdating the galaxy from the new data collected since the ED Milky Way was created by adding some of the interesting stuff that has been discovered.\nA few examples:\nXTE J1650-500 / NTREF 720 smallest black hole discovered\nBPS CS31082-0001 / CS31082-001 / Cayrel's Star 12.5 billion years old Population Class 2 star\nHD 140283 /BD−10 4149, GJ 1195, HIP 76976, SAO 159459 Methuselah star 14.46 ± 0.8 (minimum 13.66) years old\nSGR 1900+14 / Magnetar GRB 990110\nCygnus X-1 / Cyg X-1 AG Microquasar\nLS I +61 303 / V615 Cas, 1RXS J024033.5+611358, TYC 4047-1917-1, HIP 12469 / Microquasar\nSS 433 / V1343 Aquilae / Microquasar\nSheliak (Beta Lyrae) Contact Binary\nEncounters and Scenarios\nNot sure yet.\nsubmitted by CMDR_Waffles to EliteDangerous [link] [comments]\nSince Bitcoin was created, right now is the most bullish scenario we have ever seen, the world is knocking on our door, are we ready?\n\"this movement is horrifying, unsustainable, and reckless. But it's happening, so wheeeee!!!\" _chewtoy_\nLong term price channel definitively broken upwards, and has become support once already\nLocalbitcoins seeing record volumes basically everywhere https://anacoinda.github.io/localbitcoins/\nCME Group confirms Bitcoin futures market will start trading December 12th 18th\nNASDAQ announces bitcoin futures to begin trading 1st 1/2 of 2018\nCantor plans to offer BTC binary options\nCoinBase is consistently signing up over 100,000 new users a day\nCFTC Commissioner Brian Quintenz \"Although there will always be bad actors willing to engage in manipulative or fraudulent practices, the launch of the bitcoin futures contract provides investors with an opportunity to trade bitcoin exposure in a regulated market.\"\nGBTC trading at the equivalent of $18,000\nYahoo Finance goes full crypto https://finance.yahoo.com/cryptocurrencies/\nWSJ Markets covering bitcoin daily\nSchnorr signatures on horizon to increase tx per second and reduce SPAM transactions\nMAST Transactions on horizon (Merkelized Abstract Syntax Trees) Enables smart contracts, greater privacy, and reduced blockchain usage\nsubmitted by CoinCadence to BitcoinMarkets [link] [comments]\n[uncensored-r/BitcoinMarkets] Since Bitcoin was created, right now is the most bullish scenario we have ever seen, the world is...\nThe following post by CoinCadence is being replicated because some comments within the post(but not the post itself) have been silently removed.\nThe original post can be found(in censored form) at this link:\nnp.reddit.com/ BitcoinMarkets/comments/7gwu7o\nThe original post's content was as follows:\n\"this movement is horrifying, unsustainable, and reckless. But it's happening, so wheeeee!!!\" _chewtoy_\nLong term price channel definitively broken upwards, and has become support once already\nLocalbitcoins seeing record volumes basically everywhere https://anacoinda.github.io/localbitcoins/\nCME Group confirms Bitcoin futures market will start trading December 12th\nNASDAQ announces bitcoin futures to begin trading 1st 1/2 of 2018\nCantor plans to offer BTC binary options\nCoinBase is consistently signing up over 100,000 new users a day\nCFTC Commissioner Brian Quintenz \"Although there will always be bad actors willing to engage in manipulative or fraudulent practices, the launch of the bitcoin futures contract provides investors with an opportunity to trade bitcoin exposure in a regulated market.\"\nGBTC trading at the equivalent of $18,000\nYahoo Finance goes full crypto https://finance.yahoo.com/cryptocurrencies/\nWSJ Markets covering bitcoin daily\nSchnorr signatures on horizon to increase tx per second and reduce SPAM transactions\nMAST Transactions on horizon (Merkelized Abstract Syntax Trees) Enables smart contracts, greater privacy, and reduced blockchain usage\nsubmitted by censorship_notifier to noncensored_bitcoin [link] [comments]\nBitcoin Futures Trading Brings Crypto Into Mainstream\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 69%. (I'm a bot)\nThat's where trading in bitcoin futures opens Sunday evening, as the first major U.S. exchange offers a product pegged to the wildly fluctuating cryptocurrency.\nThe futures offered by Cboe Global Markets Inc., and similar contracts that start trading in a week at at another Chicago-based exchange, CME Group Inc., may open the door to greater inflows of institutional money, while also making it easier to bet on bitcoin's decline.\nDerivatives trading is the culmination of a wild year for bitcoin, which captured imaginations and investment around the world, propelled by its stratospheric gains, and its anti-establishment mission as a currency without the backing of a government or a central bank, and a payment system without a reliance on banks.\nIn addition to the contracts at Cboe and CME, which will start trading Dec. 18, Cantor Fitzgerald LP won approval from regulators to trade binary options, and LedgerX, a startup exchange, already trades bitcoin options.\n\"There will be a ramp-up time,\" said Ari Paul, chief investment officer of Blocktower Capital Advisors LP. \"There just isn't a rush. The professional traders will mostly be looking to do arbitrage, between the futures and bitcoin itself. I don't expect massive money flows right away but then I expect gradual buying from people who want passive exposure\" without buying bitcoin directly.\nThe exchange plans to impose trading limits to curb volatility, halting trading for two minutes if prices rise or fall 10 percent, and a five-minute halt kicks in at 20 percent.\nSummary Source \| FAQ \| Feedback \| Top keywords: trade#1 bitcoin#2 futures#3 contracts#4 Cboe#5\nPost found in /worldnews and /JustGoodNews.\nNOTICE: This thread is for discussing the submission topic. Please do not discuss the concept of the autotldr bot here.\nsubmitted by autotldr to autotldr [link] [comments]\nCME to launch bitcoin futures in three weeks after green light from regulator; bitcoin jumps\nThe world's largest futures exchange, CME, announces it has completed self-certification with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission to launch its bitcoin futures contract on Dec. 18. The news comes as Cboe and Cantor Exchange self-certify for their own bitcoin derivatives. Bitcoin's price rises as the launch of bitcoin futures will pave the way towards establishing the digital currency as a legitimate asset class and launching bitcoin exchange-traded funds. CME announced Friday its new bitcoin futures contract will be available for trading on Dec.18.\nThe CME announcement came as the Commodity Futures Trading Commission said it will allow the world's largest futures exchange and its competitor, the Cboe Futures Exchange, to launch bitcoin contracts. A Cantor Exchange also self-certified a new contract for bitcoin binary options, the commission said.\nBitcoin traded 6 percent higher at $10,512, recovering partly from a 20 percent drop to $9,021.85 from a record high of $11,377.33 hit Wednesday, according to CoinDesk.\n\"I think it is going to enable finally the approval of bitcoin ETFs, and other digital currency ETFs, which is game changing,\" Barry Silbert, founder and CEO of Digital Currency Group, said on CNBC's \"Squawk Box.\"\nCME's announcement comes as other major exchanges rush to launch their own bitcoin derivatives products.\nsubmitted by XSERIES547 to BitcoinMarkets [link] [comments]\nGet Free SEC filing alerts for CME: CME SEC Filing Email Alerts Service. CME — Performance: The specified contract reached expiration on 08/16/2019 ... 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0.999796	This website has a series of articles that describe what I have learned from my experiences with the healthcare industry in the U.S. My experiences include working in the medical industry for over 20 years as well as many personal encounters with the healthcare system in over 60 years of life. The articles are divided into two categories. One category is “The Healthcare Industry,” which discusses fundamental problems with the healthcare industry in the U.S. The other category is “Specific Health Experiences,” which describe my personal experiences with certain health conditions. The key conclusions from the articles are summarized below. The articles describe various experiences that support these conclusions. Key Conclusions The Healthcare Industry The healthcare industry maximizes costs and does have effective mechanisms to control costs. Free market forces have not been effective at controlling costs or providing optimal services in the healthcare industry. This results from several factors, including (a) the incomes of health professionals increase as more office visits, tests, procedures, and treatments are done, whether or not these actually benefit the patient, (b) patients have no good way to understand and compare costs, (c) there is no effective mechanism for dealing with fraud and abuse of patients in healthcare, (d) “best” medical care is provided without regard for costs, and (e) the strong financial incentives to increase costs are not controlled by competition or by regulation. In the absence of other mechanisms for assuring ethical behavior, the threat of lawsuits has an important role in dealing with incompetence and in limiting the effects of the financial incentives for practices that are detrimental to patients. (read full article) Healthcare costs can be reduced by (a) patients becoming more active in questioning doctors and in participating in the decisions about their healthcare, (b) regulations that force medical providers to implement competitive practices, such as making information available about the costs and effectiveness of their medical services, (c) altering the healthcare system to make the financial incentives for doctors and other medical providers more aligned with the best interests of patients, (d) allowing Nurse Practitioners and Physician Assistants to have a greater role in routine healthcare, and (e) developing medical care with different degrees of risk and cost that are consistent with the wishes of different patients. (read full article) Most types of insurance (e.g., home and car insurance) are intended to cover the costs for certain rare events that a person could not cover without insurance. However, health insurance has become a middleman for virtually all healthcare activities. This middleman role increases costs for healthcare due to the administrative costs, marketing costs, and profits for the insurance company. The costs and profits for the insurance companies can raise the costs for medical care by about 25%. In theory, health insurance could be beneficial for routine medical care because insurance companies have the knowledge and experience to negotiate better, more cost-effective medical services. Most patients do not have the specialized knowledge and experience to effectively negotiate for themselves. However, these theoretical benefits from health insurance companies have generally had limited effectiveness in practice. The Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) is an attempt to place requirements on insurance companies to make them produce the needed benefits for patients. At present, healthcare is basically a work in progress with various experiments to try to find something that works reasonably well. Different strategies need to be tried and compared. The differing opinions about which strategy is best need to be resolved by actual experience, not by academic speculations or political ideology. The politically conservative proposals to reduce government involvement in healthcare are based on the incorrect assumption that the healthcare providers will compete with each other, rather than continue the well-established non-competitive practices that maximize profits. The liberal proposals to require everyone to obtain health insurance without major interventions to reduce costs can also be expected to promote significantly higher costs. The lobbyists for the healthcare industry special interests dominate the political process to the point that the major choice is between different ways of enhancing the profits and control of the special interests. (read full article) Specific Health Experiences I experienced the intense pain of cluster headaches for a few years. In an informal article on the internet, a doctor speculated that cluster headaches were sometimes caused by a person becoming overheated by sleeping with heavy winter blanket when the weather warmed in the spring. That exactly fit my situation. When I changed the blankets, the cluster headaches stopped occurring. (read full article) When I ate a low fat vegetarian diet I became increasingly susceptible to tension headaches. These stopped after I altered my diet to include more protein, including nuts, eggs, and eventually fish and seafood. (read full article) I have received recommendations by medical professionals that were detrimental to my health many times over the years. In recent years I have rejected about 20% to 30% of the recommendations by doctors and often seek a second opinion when a doctor recommends an expensive or invasive procedure. (read full article) I require a mattress with a specific degree of firmness to avoid back problems. A latex mattress that can be adjusted by shifting and replacing pieces of foam has worked very well for me. (read full article)
0.950769	What is nicer than strawberries in the summer? A variety of lovely dishes with strawberries from cakes, smoothies and jam! Recipe 1 vanilla pod 300 g of strawberries 2-3 tbsp water 2 teaspoons lemon juice 3 dl jam sugar cream cheese sourdough bread Split the vanilla pod lengthways and scrape out the seeds. Cut the strawberries into pieces. Boil the vanilla pod seeds and strawberries with water and lemon juice in a saucepan. Simmer for about 10 minutes, while stirring a couple of times. Add the jam sugar and continue to cook 2-3 minutes. Keep on stirring. Pick up the vanilla pod and pour the jam into sterilised jars. Let cool. Serve with cream a good sourdough bread and some cream cheese.
0.99735	Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said on 21 April that the current stage of his Operation Defensive Shield had ended, but the campaign to root out "terrorist infrastructure" from the Palestinian territories would continue. The past few days have given a clue to what the next stage will be like - a return to targeted killings (aka assassinations) of Palestinian militants and lightning raids on their suspected hideouts. The army remains in place around Palestinian towns But these will take place in a different environment to when Mr Sharon launched his massive offensive on 29 March, amid Israeli outrage at a suicide bomb that killed more than two dozen people at a Passover meal. Primarily, by plunging back into almost every Palestinian-ruled area in the West Bank, the Israeli military claims to have come close to eradicating - through arrests or deadly attacks - the entire leadership of all the main Palestinian militant groups: Hamas, Islamic Jihad and the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade. The army also says it has dismantled two dozen bomb-making laboratories and seized 30 kilogrammes of explosives, as well as hundreds of illegal weapons and other militant paraphernalia, such as suicide bomb harnesses. Present danger But few people believe that the threat of Palestinian retaliation has been completely wiped out. The militants may be reeling now, but they are sure to regroup in time. And if anything, the anger that fuels anti-Israeli attacks is stronger than ever, with allegations of a massacre in the Jenin refugee camp added to the long list of Palestinian grievances. More assassinations will mean more angry funerals Meanwhile, the West Bank town of Hebron - which has provided many a willing suicide bomber in the past - was hardly touched by Defensive Shield. Nor was the Gaza Strip, another Palestinian-ruled area where militants enjoy wide support. Israel may have opted not to re-occupy these places for fear of engagements that could make the battle at Jenin seem small by comparison. And in Hebron's case, it could have destabilised further a highly tense area where extremist Israeli settlers live under heavy military guard in the middle of the Palestinian population. So a stepping up of incursions and targeted killings in Hebron and Gaza seems the most likely military option for Israel. The way American Middle East diplomacy has been going recently, it seems unlikely Washington will mount a serious stand against the assassination of militants. State Department officials have in the past criticised such killings, along with human rights groups and specialists in international law. Palestinian discord? Another dimension of the post-Defensive Shield environment is one which the Israeli Defence Forces may be less keen to trumpet - having insisted that their campaign was not intended to affect Palestinian civilians. Now the wider Palestinian population no longer feels immune from direct Israeli punishment if a suicide bomb were to go off in an Israeli shopping mall or restaurant. Civilians now feel they will suffer retribution It is they who have borne the brunt of the curfews, the electricity cuts and shortages of food and medicine, with the danger of shoot-to-kill enforcement by the army if they left their homes. Having until now broadly supported the militants' right to resist Israeli occupation - if not always their methods - Palestinian civilians now fear an even harsher campaign on their towns if attacks on their Israeli counterparts continue. It remains to be seen whether this will drive a wedge between Palestinian civilians and the militants, which would be a first during the current intifada. That may be the hope of Mr Sharon, who has built a career on the use of military power to achieve what he sees as Israel's political and security goals. On the other hand, pressure is likely to start building on Mr Sharon to grasp the nettle of a political settlement with the Palestinian leadership in the aftermath of his offensive, something he has less experience in doing, and less inclination. Key stories Palestinian disarray Backing the bombers US demands Distant hope Arafat's successors? Eyewitness Gazans kept apart Teenagers in uniform A family divided US Christians for Israel Background Running Palestine Intifada Q&A History of bomb blasts Country profiles FACTFILE Voices from the Conflict TALKING POINT What is the alternative to Arafat? AUDIO VIDEO TV and Radio reports See also: 18 Apr 02 \| Media reports Mid-East press raps Powell Internet links: New York City The Pentagon The White House The BBC is not responsible for the content of external internet sites Top Middle East stories now: Israel reopens talks with Palestinians Arab ban proposed in Jewish areas Iran court slaps ban on dancer Israel 'okays El Al sale' New Palestinian constitution in force Egypt spy chief on Mid-East mission Palestinian sacking sparks more protests Egypt reclaims stolen antiquities Links to more Middle East stories are at the foot of the page. 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0.997111	A retinal vein occlusion occurs when one of the veins of the retina becomes blocked and cannot drain blood from the retina normally. This blockage leads to a backup of blood and fluid into the retina. This back up of blood can be seen in the retina as hemorrhages. The amount of swelling in the retina varies and depends on the degree of blockage of the retinal vein. Two types of vein occlusions Central Retinal Vein Occlusion (CRVO) If the blockage involves the central vein to the retina, located at the optic nerve, it is called a central retinal vein occlusion. In these cases, hemorrhages can be scattered throughout the retina, and often the central portion of the retina, the macula, can become swollen. Branch Retinal Vein Occlusion (BRVO) If the blockage involves only one of the smaller retinal veins, it is called a branch retinal vein occlusion. In these cases, hemorrhages and swelling are limited to the area of the retina that is drained by that particular vein. Risk factors for vein occlusions High blood pressure Diabetes Age Blood clotting disorders Symptoms Symptoms of a retinal vein occlusion can vary based on the severity of the blockage in the vein and amount of swelling in the retina. Common symptoms include: Painless loss of vision Blurry vision In severe cases, pain from increased eye pressure Diagnosis Your doctor can diagnose a CRVO or BRVO when examining your eyes based on the appearance of hemorrhages and swelling in the retina. Other diagnostic tests such as fluorescein angiogram and optical coherence tomography (OCT) can be performed to examine the degree of blockage of the vein and the amount of swelling present in the retina. Treatment There is no cure for a vein occlusion. However, the main reason for decreased vision from a retinal vein occlusion is swelling in the central part of the retina called macular edema. Treatments for swelling include: Steroid injection Injection with medicines that decrease blood vessel leakage (Avastin, Lucentis, Macugen) Laser treatment In mild vein occlusions, often there is no significant swelling, and no treatment is indicated. In severe cases of CRVO, abnormal blood vessels can develop that can lead to glaucoma. These cases are often treated with laser and/or injection with a medication to decrease blood vessel leakage. Some patients do require surgery to control eye pressure even after laser or injections. What are retinal artery occlusions? Retinal artery occlusions occur when a plaque or clot becomes lodged in a retinal artery and prevents blood from flowing past it. These blockages cause damage to the retina due to lack of blood flow. In the short term, this loss of blood flow can cause swelling of the retina. If the blood flow remains poor, it can lead to death of the retina cells and subsequent loss of vision. Types of Retinal Artery Occlusion Central Retinal Artery Occlusion (CRAO) – A central retinal artery occlusion occurs from a blockage of the main retinal artery as it enters the eye at the optic nerve. Branch Retinal Artery Occlusion (BRAO) – A branch retinal artery occlusion involves blockage of one or more of the smaller retinal arteries. Risk factors High blood pressure Cardiovascular disease High cholesterol Carotid artery disease Symptoms Symptoms of a retinal artery occlusion vary based on the degree of impairment of blood flow to the eye. Sudden, painless loss of vision, either partial or complete, is the most common symptom. Loss of visual field, or a blurry or gray spot in the vision can also occur. Diagnosis Your doctor can diagnose a retinal artery occlusion based on examination of your eyes. Often a clot or plaque can be seen inside the blocked artery. Other diagnostic tests such as a fluorescein angiogram can be helpful in determining the degree of loss of blood flow. Often your doctor will recommend that you see your regular physician for a complete cardiovascular work-up to evaluate the risk factors listed above. Treatment Unfortunately, there are no good treatments for a retinal artery occlusion. In very early cases, attempts can be made to lower the eye pressure with eye drops or a procedure called anterior chamber paracentesis. However, even with eye pressure lowering treatments, there is often little change in the blood flow status of the eye. In severe cases, abnormal blood vessels can grow that cause eye pain and glaucoma to develop. In these cases, laser treatment can be used to try to help control the eye pressure and relieve pain.
0.990593	Blog to share the knowledge, problems, technical challenges and their solutions I face in my day to day development activity. Monday, June 1, 2015 Estimate a release in Scrum In Agile, time and again people ask this question "How would you estimate a release for a product?". When it comes from management they want to know the following: Calculate the man hours which is at their disposal to get to the release date Risk assessment How many people we need, can we expedite the development if we pump in more man power? There are many more questions. In some cases they want to use some complex prediction algorithm to come up with the release date. Oh!! My god, I think, at the end of the day who is going to implement the features? Can an algorithm do an exact implementation? Can you use the available man hours? I would say no. There is danger in using man hours. We don't take into account the diversity of a team. It can have people with experience levels. A person with ten years of experience may be able to finish a task in four hours, while another person with five years may take a day and someone less experienced may take two or more days. How does an algorithm include these differences? Or the team may be comprised of a tester, developer, BA etc. Each one has different work to do and you can't consider everyone to complete the different kind of work in the same hours at their disposal. Many a time management either doesn't understand or doesn't want to come out of its traditional way of running business. There is an easy solution to this. No fancy algorithm, no man hour calculation, nothing. If you are aware of Agile concepts then what I am going to say may sound familiar. You can use the velocity of the team to come up with more accurate predictions. But before we see how we can predict release, we need to understand what velocity is. Velocity is the story points a team can deliver in each sprint. A sprint can be anywhere between two to four weeks. I like to have smaller sprints of two weeks. Thinking that a sprint is of two weeks in length, let's examine further how velocity is calculated. Below is a table showing the sprint and the story points achieved in each sprint. Sprint # Story points per sprint Velocity Sprint 1 1 1 Sprint 2 3 (1+3)/2 = 2 Sprint 3 3 (1+3+3)/3 = 2.3 Sprint 4 5 (1+3+3+5)/4 = 3 Sprint 5 3 (1+3+3+5+3)/5 = 3 So from the above table you can see how a team's velocity is calculated. In the first sprint (two weeks) it achieved one story point (SP). In the second it gained three SPs. So velocity is the total number of SPs achieved in all sprints divided by the number of sprints. In the third sprint the velocity was 2.3 and by the end of fifth sprint the velocity stabilized to three SPs. With that knowledge of what velocity is, let's tackle the problem of calculating a release date for a set of features. There are two ways to do this. One is where the team has historical data to calculate velocity and second where the team is new and there is no historical data. Let's see the easy one first. When the team has Velocity data? This situation is applicable for teams that have been working on products for a long time and has historical SP data to calculate its velocity. The product owner gets a set of ten new features from the client and he wants to know how quickly the team can deliver these. The solution is simple. Give the ten new requirements to the team and ask them to come up with estimate. Here is the process which needs to be followed. The team (dev, QA, BA) gets into a quick release planning (not really release planning) meeting with the product owner. The team and Product Owner (PO) go through the list of features and try to understand each one of them. There is no need to know the nitty gritty of the requirements as they may be pulled out in future. The team needs to get enough information so that it can estimate. Once the team has enough understanding about a feature it can estimate the user stories (features). The estimate is done in terms of SPs. The team plays planning poker. Below is the table showing the SPs estimated by the team for the features. Features Story points Feature 1 5 Feature 2 3 Feature 3 3 Feature 4 8 Feature 5 5 Feature 6 8 Feature 7 3 Feature 8 3 Feature 9 5 Feature 10 2 After all the ten features have been estimated calculate the total SPs for the ten user stories. From the above table the total SPs is 45. From the first table we know the team's velocity is 3 and the total SPs estimated for 10 stories is 45. If the team can deliver three SPs a sprint then to deliver 45 SPs it will take 15 (45/3) sprints. 15 sprints = 30 (15 * 2) weeks. 30 weeks = 7.5 months. So the team will take 7.5 months to finish the ten new features. To this you need to add the regression, stabilization and any other phases required for delivering a quality product. In essence the time taken is 7.5 months + Time required for Regression + any other stage. For fairly new team that doesn't have historical data Follow the above steps from 1 to 4. Let's go with the same 45 SPs as the estimate. Now we don't have historical data to calculate the release date. What can be done? The team can decide and assume a number as its velocity. Say the team has decided two SPs as its velocity. Based on the team's assumption of its velocity you can calculate the release date. As the sprints end the team can start re-calculating its velocity and adjust the release dates. From my experience a team reaches a stable velocity within four to six iterations. So in two months you can exactly predict the release date. What happens if we don't meet the target? During the release planning the team needs to fix dates on feature freeze and code freeze based on the overall estimate. By the time you reach the feature freeze date the team will have a good idea on whether it is going to deliver all the promised features. If the team is not able to keep the commitment -- if it has promised ten features and only eight will be completed --then the team members need not panic. The approach would be to ask the product owner to start negotiating with the client. Either the client has to accept the product with eight features or extend the time to get the whole set of features. This is quite normal and from my experience if you have a good product owner who has good negotiating skills the client will accept any of the above options. Another advantage to Agile is that the client need not wait for years to get features. At the end of every end of the sprint the client gets a feature delivered. And I have seen except for few scenarios, client are quite accommodative. The reason is that client can see the ROI every two weeks and this actually builds confidence. What happens if the client cuts short the estimate from x to y? The answer is simple. You tell the client that X will be the time taken to deliver ten features and if you cut the time short then in Y time frame you can deliver only six features. What happens if the client adds new requirements? If the client adds more requirement and wants it in the same timeframe, then the team needs to tell the product owner that if you add new features then out of the previously committed ten features we may have to drop few to accommodate the new ones. This can happen only when prioritization comes into play. The product owner and client need to decide the priorities for the features. Based on the priorities the team will tackle higher priority items first. Once the higher priorities are targeted it will pick up the lesser priority items. The product owner either needs to buy more time to include the new features or need to get few items off the list so that new items can be accommodated in the timeframe. 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0.948948	Ah wait what was the story about in this movie? I can't seem to remember much about the movie only the dog coming back to life and a adult knocked out a ruthless kid I think it was the dad that have a son that was being bullied by them but the dad is a madman himself. john connor's actress mother dies, he moves in with gilbert from revenge of the nerds, befriends the doughboy whose stepfather the kurgan kills pop'n fresh's dog, who then tells john about the micmac (sp?) grounds where he buries the dog, it come back and kills mr. krabs who in return is buried up there and comes back mr. kurgan kills ron thompson, then kills pillsbury and his mother, digs up connor's mother and has him bury her up there, nancy anne ciclancy then buries two-face up there, more people as well as some bunnies and the dog die gilbert kills lex luthor, goes back home to find furry with his mother, two-face thompson gets his head blown up, she melts to re-death, the end
0.9722	.btn:hover { background: #3cb0fd; background-image: -webkit-linear-gradient(top, #3cb0fd, #3498db); background-image: -moz-linear-gradient(top, #3cb0fd, #3498db); background-image: -ms-linear-gradient(top, #3cb0fd, #3498db); background-image: -o-linear-gradient(top, #3cb0fd, #3498db); background-image: linear-gradient(to bottom, #3cb0fd, #3498db); text-decoration: none; } Keeping the foundation of a home in level condition is very important to the safety of your home, and is something any homeowner should have looked into on a regular basis. At the very least, you should have your home foundation checked annually for levelness, and if there are certain areas that are beginning to sag. Fortunately for homeowners, there are foundation services offered for any type of foundation you can imagine a home sitting on, some from pier supports to the traditional concrete slab. Young America Concrete & Foundation Services Pouring, drilling, everything to do with stone Concrete Services Young America Indiana Young America Concrete & Foundation Services 7 out of 10 with 22 reviews Residential Foundation Services in Young America The best way to support the edges and corners of a traditional foundation found in residential homes is by using helical anchor supports. These supports are situated around the foundation and then have an anchor that drives deep into the ground in order to provide extra support and to stop a foundation from becoming un-level. The best part about this type of support system is that it is affordable, installed quickly, and it does not ruin the landscaping around your home. If you live in an older home and have fears of your foundation being suspect to failure in the future, you should immediately call for a consultation from your trusted foundation support company. Another common practice in homes with basements is to support the exterior walls of the basement that are constantly having pressure put on them from the surrounding land. The best support system to utilize for this is to have helical anchors installed that take some of the pressure off of the wall. The next step would be installing carbon fiber reinforcements to the wall itself, which will give the wall that extra needed strength so that it never becomes compromised. If you live in a home that is on blocking or uses pier supports, you can have a special type of anchoring system installed that will keep your supports completely level, and at full strength. Many beach homes use a pier support system as their foundation of their home. This type of foundation often gets damaged from rising tides and from sitting on weak sands, which is why you can have them completely reinforced by putting anchors deeper into the ground so that they are sitting on hard soil instead of weak sand. Concrete Repair & Restoration – Basic Things You Need to Know in IN Bowing and cracking are obvious signs of a structural problem and it may worsen overtime when it goes unfixed. Basically, the longer you fix them, the more expensive the repair will be. When a concrete foundation gets damaged, it will cause problems in all the building. The windows and doors become hard to operate as they will be dealing with additional pressure from the damaged concrete. The building walls can crack, the floor may bow when you don’t fix the problem right away. Fixing the foundation problem as soon as they arise will save you money down the line. It will also minimize the extent of the damage from the concrete problem. What you can do is find the right concrete foundation company. By hiring the right concrete restoration company, you can ensure quality work and can limit the amount of unnecessary work. It is obviously hard to do the repair yourself as you have limited knowledge regarding this field of work. The best course of action is to hire a company that has worked on this field for a long time. Furthermore, an expert in restoration can see tiny problems that average Joes like you would not even think about. They have all the right tools, materials and skills to make foundation and concrete repairs. Another thing that you might be thinking right now is you can save money by providing a quick fix for your weakening foundation. Doing things like filling cement or patching cracks on your foundation are both considered cosmetic repairs but they don’t necessarily fix the entire problem. Doing these kinds of repair only provide temporary fix. Sooner or later, you will have to do a more permanent restoration. As I’ve said before, it is better to get the foundation fixed immediately instead of waiting for the damage to worsen overtime. In summary, here’s what you need to do: 1. 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Cement, stone, steel or wood were used extensively in past techniques. They would be forced into the ground in a bid to salvage the strength of these foundations. However, this type of repair work has been known to be futile. Two of the most successful ways of foundation repairs are slab jacking and the Piering method. Piering is also known as hydraulic jacking. Slab jacking is the process of adding grout beneath a slab or beam. This produces a lifting force and restores the said beam or slab to almost its original elevation and adds to its strength. Care should be taken that the amount of sand should be perfect while adding grout. 4 Ways to Protect Your Foundation in Cass County 1. Foundation liners Any home with a window well has a veritable pool just waiting to be filled flush against the foundation. Those tiny pinholes and hairline cracks can let water seep in and quietly warp the wood beyond repair. It’s also a cesspool for fungi and bacterial growth. Not only will a foundation liner help protect your foundation, but it will also make the entire window well look gorgeous-choose from a variety of materials that mimic natural materials. 2. Proper soil grading Basements are hotspots for flooding, but you can’t blame an overactive washing machine every time. Yes, it’s where a lot of pipes are close to the walls, but more often it’s a quick spring thaw or heavy rain that’s to blame. Particularly if your basement has windows, you need to make sure the soil against the foundation is graded away from the home. A reputable landscaper can help with this. 3. Clear away snow quickly If you live in a snowy region, as tedious as it may be, you need to remove snow regularly from your foundation and roof. Both of these areas are vulnerable to water damage, and snow is a lot heavier than you think. If you’ve been waiting for an excuse to hire a professional snow crew, this is it. Whether you use your own elbow grease or prefer to hire help, it’s much easier and more affordable than risking a damaged foundation or roof from snowfall. 4. Get your downspouts in order Are your downspouts directing water far enough away from your home? There’s only one way to find out. Ask your contractor when you’re having your roof inspected. You could probably do better with downspouts and maybe even utilize some of that rainfall for gray water in the home (ultimately conserving resources and cash flow). A Simple Guide to Waterproofing House Foundations in 46998 Between fifteen and twenty years ago, most builders thought that spreading asphalt onto a house’s foundation was a good enough method of providing waterproofing to the foundation and the home. Then, between ten and fifteen years ago, a person named Owens Corning added a rubber compound to the asphalt to give it more flexibility. Since then, other people have developed other rubber based compounds that hold a greater amount of elasticity than the original rubber and asphalt compounds. Bentonite is a must when it comes to waterproofing house foundation. Bentonite is a special product made of natural clay that swells when it comes into contact with moisture. When water passes through bentonite on its way to foundation cracks, it breaks off bits of the bentonite clay as it flows which, when it reaches the foundation crack, causes the clay to “fall” into the crack and expand — plugging up the crack and keeping the rest of the moisture out! When deciding which foundation building company to employ, you will want to make sure that they are properly educated on the use and installation of drain tile. Drain tile is essential to waterproofing house foundations and while there are plenty of contractors and builders who know what it is, few of them know how to properly install it with your foundation. 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0.999621	Hello. I got some problems to compile the example "Face Recognition in Videos with OpenCV" (problem with facerec_video.cpp). The problem is that i don't understand where is the "include files" #include "opencv2/core.hpp" #include "opencv2/face.hpp" #include "opencv2/highgui.hpp" #include "opencv2/imgproc.hpp" #include "opencv2/objdetect.hpp" I installed opencv-2.4.9. Is this the problem? In /usr/local/include i found the opencv2 folder with all the header files. Really there was some differences: core.hpp was in opencv2/core/core.hpp, highgui.hpp in opencv2/highgui/highgui.hpp and so on but can't find face.hpp. Help me please! Copyright OpenCV foundation, 2012-2018. Content on this site is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike 3.0 license. about \| faq \| help \| privacy policy \| terms of service Powered by Askbot version 0.10.2 Please note: OpenCV answers requires javascript to work properly, please enable javascript in your browser, here is how
0.938693	How to keep assets identical across multiple projects using local UPM packages - Tutorials - VRChat Ask How to keep assets identical across multiple projects using local UPM packages Tutorials, Tools, and Resources Tutorials varneon November 10, 2021, 3:15pm #1 If you have a lot of personal assets like text files, audio clips, models, textures, etc. that you are often using in many of your Unity projects and want to keep identical across all of the said projects, you should look into turning those assets into local Unity Package Manager packages. Local UPM packages always stay identical, whenever you change any asset inside one project, the same changes will be applied to all of the other projects as well since all of the files are saved in the same shared location. This also means that using the same package across multiple projects doesn’t create duplicate files and saves space on your hard drive. NOTE: One known limitation is that you can’t save UdonSharp scripts inside packages! TLDR: Using local UPM packages allows you to: Keep assets in your package identical across projects Store files in your package outside of Unity projects Save space on your hard drive (only one copy of the files will exist) How to set up new local package: Create new folder where you want the files to be stored (In my case I have a separate folder under Documents dedicated for personal assets) explorer_vpSkW6qYpK518×547 15.7 KB Create new text file called "package.json" inside the folder Add following information inside the "package.json" file: (Replace the name and description fields with your own details) Unity documentation for package manifest: Unity - Manual: Package manifest Code_SBjiHrMa161353×285 30.8 KB Open your Unity project and navigate to Window > Package Manager Click the “+” icon on the top left corner to open the dropdown and click “Add package from disk…” Select the “package.json” file we created earlier to add the package into the project Unity_kcX49INMVY969×541 21.3 KB Verify that your package was properly added, it should look something like this: SmoLXxoVDg700×332 23.4 KB Add assets to your package! (Since these packages will be only used by yourself locally, following the standard package layout is optional, but you can learn more about it here: Unity - Manual: Package layout) You can access files in your package inside your Unity project from Project window under Packages: Or you can edit files directly in the folder that we created in Step 1 And that’s it! Now you should have a local UPM package that you can add to any one of your projects and the assets inside the package will remain identical between projects. If you want to edit your package’s information, you can click on the package.json inside your Unity project and it will open this view in your Inspector window: image554×525 12.4 KB Editing the fields and clicking “Apply” will save the changes and the package information will updated on all projects Unity Documentation instructions for creating local packages: docs.unity3d.com Unity - Manual: Creating custom packages I hope you found this tutorial helpful. If you found any mistakes in this tutorial, some details remain unclear or you would like to add something, please don’t hesitate to comment below! Did you find this tutorial helpful? Yes No 0 voters Luna_Delrey November 10, 2021, 10:19pm #2 Question, what’s exactly the advantage of using packages opposed to Symlinks? From my knowledge a Symlink would achieve the same but also allow for U# and Udon stuff to be shared between projects. (For those reading wondering what a Symlink is, a Symlink, also known as a symbolic link allows you to have a folder point to another folder, e.g you can use it to move appdata to another folder, but windows will still pretend it’s at it’s original location) varneon November 10, 2021, 11:22pm #3 I would say that the risk of corrupting your Unity project with incorrect usage of links easily overpowers the inconveniences that small limitations with local UPM packages may cause in this case. (Unity even warns about this as soon as symlink is detected) This tutorial is mainly aimed at beginners and understanding the basics of UPM will be extremely helpful in the long run, while more experienced users will most likely already have the understanding of their goals and methods for achieving them, such as referencing remote assets through symlinks.
0.999964	New Brunswick RCMP have arrested a 22-year-old Fredericton man after the seizure of more than 90,000 illegal cigarettes from a vehicle in Saint-Jacques, N.B. Share: Reddit Share Text: HALIFAX -- New Brunswick RCMP have arrested a 22-year-old Fredericton man after the seizure of more than 90,000 illegal cigarettes from a vehicle in Saint-Jacques, N.B. Police say at approximately 7 p.m. on August 6, members of the Department of Public Safety stopped a vehicle on the Trans-Canada Highway in the Saint-Jacques area at the point of entry into New Brunswick from Quebec, and advised the RCMP that contraband tobacco was noticed in the vehicle. A subsequent search of the vehicle led to the seizure of more than 450 cartons of, or approximately 90,000, illegal cigarettes. A 22-year-old man from Fredericton, N.B. was arrested at the scene. He was later released and is scheduled to appear in Edmundston Provincial Court on December 1. His name has not been released at this time.
0.996864	A mole is an important unit in chemistry. Do you know the mole got its name? No, it's not named for the burrowing animal! Here is the answer to why a mole is called a mole. Key Takeaways: How the Mole Units Got Its Name The mole is a unit used in chemistry that is equal to Avogadro's number. It is the number of carbon atoms in 12 grams of the isotope carbon-12. The word mole comes from the word molecule. It is not related in any way to the animal called the mole. The mole is most often used to convert between numbers of atoms and molecules to the gram mass unit. Ostwald is responsible for coming up with the term "mole" (Mol), although his original unit was defined in terms of the gram. His later writings made it clear he intended this unit to be based on the ideal gas concept. Around 1900, Ostwald wrote, "… the molecular weight of a substance, expressed in grams, shall henceforth be called mole … das in Grammen augedruckte … Molekulargewicht eines Stoffes soll fortan ein Mol heissen" "That amount of any gas that occupies a volume of 22414 mL in normal conditions is called one mole eine solche Menge irgendeines Gases, welche das Volum von 22412 ccm im Normalzustand einnimt nennt man ein Mol"
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0.999703	The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says everyone 6 months old and older should be vaccinated against influenza, especially amid the COVID pandemic. By Dr. Eve Glazier and Dr. Elizabeth Ko Oct 28, 2021, 7:45am CDT Share this story Share this on Facebook Share this on Twitter Share All sharing options Share All sharing options for: Ask the Doctors: Get your flu shot this year Reddit Pocket Flipboard Email Additional medical visits strain our already-stressed health care system. All the more reason to get your flu shot as well as the COVID-19 vaccine. stock.adobe.com Dear Doctors: Do I really have to get a flu shot this year? I’m still social distancing, wearing a mask and not attending indoor events. I got the shot last year, but then there wasn’t any flu around. I just got a booster for COVID-19, so I’m uneasy about getting the flu shot, too. Answer: Yes, you absolutely should get your flu shot this year. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says everyone 6 months old and older should be vaccinated against influenza before the start of this year’s season. It’s true last year’s flu season was historically mild due largely to widespread stay-at-home orders and masking and social distancing. Another factor was that, due to the pandemic, people didn’t see their doctors and urgent care centers when they got sick, so many flu cases went undiagnosed. After 18 months of limited contact outside of their households, people are traveling, socializing, returning to workplaces and generally spending more time in public. This raises their risk of catching — and passing along — the flu. Due to the overlap in flu and COVID-19 symptoms, including fever, headache, body aches, cough, exhaustion and congestion, you need a test to know whether it’s the influenza virus or the coronavirus making you ill. It’s an important distinction because COVID requires specific and sustained precautions. Additional medical visits strain our already-stressed health care system. All the more reason to get your flu shot as well as the COVID-19 vaccine. Data collected by British and U.S. researchers found no signs of trouble when people get both vaccines at the same time. If you’re concerned, you can space your vaccinations by a few weeks. Adding the flu vaccine to the precautions you’re already taking significantly lowers your risk of getting seriously ill. Exceptions to the flu shot recommendation are people with severe allergies to any ingredient in the vaccine. People with egg allergies need to discuss the vaccine with their health care providers. So do those who have had Guillain-Barre syndrome. Some people in each of these categories might be advised not to get the flu vaccine. But that’s a minute subset of those eligible for the vaccine. By getting vaccinated, you’re protecting yourself and everyone else. Flu season runs from October to May, peaking between December and March. 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0.999266	Tab Panels were added to FileMaker Pro in version 8.5, providing a much needed way to be able to store and organize a lot more information on a single layout. But despite all the versions to come after, FileMaker never created a way to automatically restore which tab panel you were on when you navigated to a different layout and back again. FileMaker always resets all the tabs. This can be very frustrating in a fast paced work environment when navigating between layouts. What is Tab Controls? Tab Controls is a FileMaker solution I created. It has a pair of scripts that can be implemented as subscripts into your regular layout navigation routines. These scripts remember and restore the front tabs of all tab controls, including nested tabs, when you navigate between different layouts. To implement, all you have to do is copy and paste the scripts from the example file into your solution and then call them as part of your navigation sub-routines. Complete descriptions on how it works are built into the example file. Just download it and check it out for yourself! I'd like to extend a special thanks to the following for their feedback, suggestions, inspirations, and error catching: Steve Gerow, Jeremiah Small, Kevin Frank, Ray Cologon, Brian Dunning, Bruce Robertson, Ilyse Kazar, Peter Vinogradov, and Tom Elliott TC 2.0: for FM 12 + With the release of FileMaker 14, I felt it was high time to port over the system and make sure everything was working properly. Once I got under the hood, I couldn't stop tinkering. There are enough changes that I felt it was worth releasing as Tab Controls 2.0, dedicated for the FM 12+ family. Tab Controls 2.0 v5 Version History 2.0 v5: July 31, 2017 Added one line of code to the Remember Tabs script that inserts a line break after every instance of "<" or ">" in the LayoutObjectNames list. Addresses the issue where the function sometimes returns a list where object names were on the same line as a "<" or ">", or there would be two "<<" or ">>", which caused the script to miscalculate the "tier" an object was on, and not be able to save the tabs lists to the global variable. Rather than download a new version, you can fix an existing version by adding the following line of code after line 28: Set Variable [$LayoutObjectNamesList; Value: Substitute ( $LayoutObjectNamesList ; [ "<" ; "<¶" ] ; [ ">" ; ">¶" ] )] 2.0 v4: June 10, 2016 Added steps to check to see if parent object of a top tier tab control is a popover while restoring tabs. If so, it will close the popover. Added popover example. In order for new feature to work, the popover must have an object name like tab controls do. 2.0 v3: May 16, 2016 Updated for FM 14+ only Added new variables to Restore tabs to allow for bypassing of script triggers or skipping restoring tabs all together. Added example of how to bypass panel script triggers when restoring tabs. Added example of how to disable restoring tabs if not desired. Added example of a "vertical" tab panel, with instructions on how to recreate the effect. 2.0: Aug 4, 2015 Updated for FM 12, 13, and 14 only Added tweak to take into account new "IsFrontPanel" for FM 13+ vs. "IsFrontTabPanel" for FM 12 Revamped demo layout to bring it more up to date aesthetically Changed clear lists button to wipe out all tab data, including that being stored in the global fields Removed all underscores from variable names Added global $$TopMostTabs variable to capture which ever top most tabs were actually visible. Revised scripting at tail end of "Remember Tabs" script to fix an extremely rare bug that only impacted the ability to accurately capture which front tab panels were vactually visible. Unless you had an extremely complex tab control layout and needed to capture that information, it probably did not affect you. The core remember/restore tabs features were unaffected by this bug. Revamped the entire layout, tab orders, as well as documentation / notes on the tabs and scripts. TC 1.0: for FM 8.5 - FM 11 1.0 v11 is the last release for FileMaker versions 8.5 through 11. There will be no further updates. Tab Controls 1.0 works for FM 11. It also should work for versions FM 8.5 through FM 10, I make no guarantees. It's been years since I have used anything earlier than FM 11. Nor am I willing to support those versions. Tab Controls 1.0 Version History 1.0 v11: July 22, 2009 Squashed a minor bug created by v10 changes. This first time the Remember Tabs script was run on any given layout, it would return the incorrect top most tabs, but thereafter, it would work correctly. This bug has been fixed. 1.0 v10: Nov 5, 2008 Folded in sub-script that captures top most tab into Remember Tabs script. Added a script header with the remember tabs script to provide example of new documentation / revision tracking for scripts. Added new loop so that the first time the remember tabs script is run on a layout, the list of tab names is calculated and stored before checking against it to see which tabs are the front most. Once the list is generated, the script will not have to recreate it for that layout. This provides a slight boost in performance, since the first part of the script only runs once per layout per user session. Simplified "Remember Tabs w/ Fields" script so that it runs the "Remember Tabs" script, and then populates the global fields with the sample data so that you can see the results of the scripts and judge for yourself. 1.0 v8 ~ v9: Sept 3, 2008 Fixed error in new Topmost Tabs sub-script that in some complex tab control scenarios, failed to capture the correct top tabs. Added an optional subscript that allows you to capture the very top-most tab within a given set of tab controls, called from the Remember Tabs script. 1.0 v1 ~ v7: Aug 20, 2008 Overhauled entire structure of both scripts. Still no requirements for any additional fields, sub-scripts or custom functions. "Remember" script now calculates which "tier" a tab control panel is on, where a nested tab control is considered to be on a lower tier than the parent. It then finds all the tab panels that are "front" tabs. It then separates out all of the front tabs into their separate tiers, and concatenates all the tiers into a global string, starting from the lowest tier to the top most tier. "Restore" script then goes to each saved front tab object, starting with the lowest tiers first, on upwards. In previous versions, Tab Memory merely restored the front tabs in the order that they were listed via the "LayoutObjectNames" function. This sometimes caused errors with very complex nested tab controls that were three or more layers deep. Fixed a bug where it was incorrectly marking some nested tabs as being a top tab if the name of the parent tab was a partial match to a value in the top tabs list. That has been corrected. Only exact matches will make it to the second round.

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